AVG Anti-Virus Free 2012

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012 software, the overview panel offers five protection tools and another three optional ones, which you can activate as needed. Anti-Virus which like most such products these days might be better named anti-malware as it detects viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans and malicious adware - is the core of the suite. LinkScanner is for browser protection and scans ahead, looking at the sites that are returned from web searches. It also provides protection against drive-by threats from bad sites. E-mail Protection scans against spam and phishing attacks on your incoming e-mails, while Anti-Rootkit looks for low-level rootkit installations, often linked with adware and botnets. Identity Protection uses heuristics to protect against identity theft from zero-day threats.