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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

By Erik Eckel February 19, 2009, 8:26 AM PST

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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0 Console

AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0 Console

All AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0 tools are available from a single console, as shown here. From configuring advanced Resident Shield exceptions to fine-tuning anti-rootkit settings, a variety of customizations enable matching the security software to a wide range of small business needs.

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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

Scheduling Regular Updates

Scheduling Regular Updates

Technology professionals can configure AVG to update its antivirus signatures frequently. By regularly refreshing the program’s signatures, organizations can better protect themselves from emerging threats.n

nUnlike the application’s free versions, the paid edition enables specifying more than one update daily. Here you can see the software is set to its default: virus database updates are set to run every four hours.

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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

E-mail Scanner Component

E-mail Scanner Component

Business users can elect to scan incoming messages, outgoing e-mail, or both. Such changes are entered using the E-mail Scanner Component, as shown here.

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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

LinkScanner

LinkScanner

AVG’s LinkScanner provides protection from Web-related threats. It includes two components (AVG Active Surf-Shield and AVG Search Shield) to protect users from browser-based vulnerabilities and potential threats that could appear within searches.

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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

Anti-Rootkit

Anti-Rootkit

AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0 provides protection from rootkit programs, which very often prove very difficult or impossible to detect using other programs. Using the Anti-Rootkit utility shown here, users can perform scans specifically for rootkit components.

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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

Virus Vault

Virus Vault

When AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0 detects a virus or other infection, the security software quarantines the offending file. Users and support techs can review all quarantined files using AVG’s Virus Vault window, featured here.

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Product Spotlight: AVG Anti-Virus Professional 8.0

Resident Shield Detection

Resident Shield Detection

AVG also tracks files its real-time detection engine isolates. For example, here are the log results from a test system’s (used to clean slaved hard disks) Resident Shield.

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