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2. AVG AntiVirus - Wikipedia

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   AVG AntiVirus (previously known as AVG, an abbreviation of Anti-Virus Guard) is a line of antivirus software developed by AVG Technologies, a subsidiary of Avast, a part of Gen Digital. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is available for Windows , macOS and Android .

3. Antivirus software - Wikipedia

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   Anti-virus software can cause problems during the installation of an operating system upgrade, e.g. when upgrading to a newer version of Windows "in place"—without erasing the previous version of Windows. Microsoft recommends that anti-virus software be disabled to avoid conflicts with the upgrade installation process.

4. AVG Technologies - Wikipedia

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   AVG AntiVirus is a freeware program [32] that relies heavily on heuristic analysis to determine if a program's code is behaving like malicious software. [ 4 ] [ 33 ] It scans a computer's documents, programs, and emails for suspicious behavior, [ 34 ] then rates each file's risk based on its behavior and alerts the user of files with a high ...

5. Comparison of antivirus software - Wikipedia

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   Many antivirus products use "third-party antivirus engine". This means that the antivirus engine is made by another producer; however, the malware signature and/or other parts of the product may (or may not) be done from the owner of the product itself.

6. Talk:AVG AntiVirus - Wikipedia

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   9 Grisoft have announced the free version of AVG Anti-Virus 7.1 to ... I had heard AVG could cause false alarms, but this was quite annoying. ... One problem I have ...

7. Browser hijacking - Wikipedia

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   Most hijacking programs constantly change the settings of browsers, meaning that user choices in their own browser are overwritten. Some antivirus software identifies browser hijacking software as malicious software and can remove it. Some spyware scanning programs have a browser restore function to set the user's browser settings back to ...

8. Potentially unwanted program - Wikipedia

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   Antivirus companies define the software bundled as potentially unwanted programs [1] [2] which can include software that displays intrusive advertising (adware), or tracks the user's Internet usage to sell information to advertisers , injects its own advertising into web pages that a user looks at, or uses premium SMS services to rack up ...

9. Spyware - Wikipedia

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   Spyware, which interferes with networking software commonly causes difficulty connecting to the Internet. In some infections, the spyware is not even evident. Users assume in those situations that the performance issues relate to faulty hardware, Windows installation problems, or another malware infection.