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Family of anti-virus and Internet security software developed by AVG Technologies

Its products are available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD computing platforms. The company was formerly known as Grisoft.

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What is JavaScript Obfuscation and why is it a threat?

AVG was recently telling me that a webpage was blocked because of JavaScript Obfuscation. Why was the webpage blocked and what exactly does that mean?
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Clean up infected computer from viruses

Possible Duplicate: What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware? I have a computer which had AVG Free installed from day one. After several months of operation, it starts detecting viruses and trojans all the time. Besides…
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Does FileZilla contain a virus?

I downloaded FileZilla from SourceForge on February 16, install was OK, but recently my antivirus said that the file contains a virus (MalSign.Generic.550). Previously there was no notification about a virus in this software. Is it a false positive…
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Microsoft Defender vs AVG 9.0

From various forums it appears that AVG 9.0 disables Microsoft Defender. Is there any way to stop that behavior?
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how to extract a virus from a Thunderbird inbox file?

I have a virus scan running and it's found a virus in my Thunderbird inbox file. Of course, I don't want to delete the inbox file, and the anti-virus (AVG) can't seem to pull it out. There are lots of messages my mailbox and I don't want to try to…
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What does an AVG "False alarm" message mean?

My question is about the category of AVG alerts which contain the text "False alarm", such as the one that appears in this old forum thread: http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=219213 If AVG knows something to be a false…
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IE 9 home page is hijacked by avg

I definitely know how to change the home page in Internet Explorer (Tools -> Options -> General). The problem is, no matter what I put there, it never changes. Stop/restart Internet Explorer and the old home page is back. I did some research to see…
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How can I install AVG Anti Virus on a computer without internet connection?

I downloaded AVG Anti Virus on one computer and tried to copy it to a stand alone computer but it says that I need to connect to the internet. Is there a way to bypass the proxy and the need of internet connection?
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My BrowserHelperObject is detected by avg as a malware, what is going wrong

I'm building a BrowserHelperObject in C++ for Internet Explorer 8. It is a friendly add-on that gives you functionality in a sidebar. The thing is that when you download the add-on executable from the web, AVG (AntiVirusGuard) detects the…
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After removing AVG 2015 Windows Defender will not start

System: Windows Pro 8.1 After removal of AVG 2015, Windows Defender fails to start. When attempting to start Windows Defender via the UI It fails to start with error 0x8007139f When attempting to start the service It fails with error : Error…
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Can't access internet after installing antivirus

I'm using Windows 8.1 Pro - 64 bit. Today, I installed AVG Internet Security 2015 on my laptop, but afterwards, I can't access the internet. I use a WiFi connection, but after installation, my laptop is not connecting to any connection. Things I…
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Sending email with Windows 8 Mail (Modern UI) being blocked by AVG Firewall

I've setup my Outlook.com email address in Windows 8 Mail (Modern UI) but is unable to send and receive emails when my AVG Internet Security 2012 Business Edition's Firewall is enable. When I disable the firewall, the emails are coming through and…
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Are these ads in AVG Antivirus normal?

My Windows XP PC started acting strange and I am right now actually in Linux running off of a USB drive. I am running Avast under Linux and it has discovered some viruses on my XP drive. Some of the strange things happening in XP were: I could not…
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How do I temporarily turn off AVG Antivirus?

I run AVG Antivirus (version 8.5, I believe). Now I want to install "Dragon Naturally Speaking", a speech recognition software. During installation I'm told that I need to temporarily disable my antivirus. How do I temporarily disable it?
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Does AVG security toolbar do anything useful actually?

Does AVG security toolbar do anything useful actually? It seems to me that all its functionality is already integrated into Linkscanner.
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