The latest free antivirus edition from AVG, version 9.0.704 is safer, faster and simpler to use. It provides better security, 50 percent faster access than the previous versions. This AVG’s free antivirus software is combined with an anti-malware scanner, Link Scanner that works efficiently and proactively in screening down the web pages, and scanning e-mails. This free edition possesses some new anti-phishing detection tools enabling a user to detect about a phishing attack on a web page. In order to provide protection against some hidden threats, this version also comes with some basic anti-rootkit protection.
The installation is faster and it has come up with some new enhanced features that increase the performance level for faster scanning and boot times. For instance, the Identity Theft Recovery Unit (ITRU) provides better consumer identity theft solution, from the AVG toolbar in Explorer and Firefox.
To speed up the first scanning process during installation, the users should know how to optimize scanning process, as the slider makes selection possible between the slow, automatic and fast scan options. It is also advisable to keep a track of scan with a progress meter. AVG 9.0.704 is proactive enough to create a rescue disk to scan your PC in MS-DOS mode, if the virus starts creating any real problems. It is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, and Windows 2000.