Download AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0.234

AVG Technologies has released version 8.0.234 of AVG Anti-virus Free Edition. This free version of AVG’s antivirus program protects against viruses just as well, but in comparison with its big paid brother, AVG Anti-virus Pro, it has to do without rootkit and instant messaging protection, among other things. set. Another limitation is that the program is only available in a limited number of languages ​​and may not be used in commercial environments. In version 8.0.234, recognition for a new polymorphic virus named Win32/Virut added, but because there was no changelog available when writing about version 8.0.233, we’ll include that as well, since it was an important update:

AVG Free 8.0.233 – SP2

Fixes

• Fix of process path hijacking.
• Fix of scanning files on different file system (eg samba shares).
• Fixed problem of specific setup crash on fat32 filesystems.
• Fixed healing of W32/Elkern virus.
• ZPerm false alarm on some packers removed.
• Fixed long processing of some .bmp files by scanning engine.
• Fix possibility of corrupting Opera cookies during healing process.
• Fixed slow scan of some .ini files by resident shield.
• Fix or crash on some .chm archive types.
• Fixed possible problems with requiring restarts for every update.
• Fixed problem with blocking Chkdsk utility.
• Fixed computer shutdown upon scan finish on Win2000 and WinXP.
• Fixed requested restart during update of virus database.
• Fixed removing temporary files.
• Fixed update or TDI driver.
• Fixed Safe Search dangerous links disappearing on Yahoo in Firefox.
• Fixed problem with “Invalid update control CTF file” error message during update.

News & Improvements

• Support scanning files and directories containing DOS device alias names.
• Allow healing files on not mounted windows shared disks (via UNC path).
• Polymorphic virus detection has been simplified.
• Improvements in Core mime parser.
• Improve the stability of AVG plugins and system services by separating the scanning part to new process (out-of-process scanning).
• Addition of “.dropper” extension to name of finding dropped from emulator.
• Add support for scanning and healing Mozilla Firefox 3 cookies.
• Enhanced heuristics in process scanning.
• Added support for reverting AVI database to previous version.
• Some parts of AVG configuration have been secured to be modifiable only by users having Administrator rights.
• Added support for new Windows Security Center in Windows Vista SP1.
• Added support for new Google sponsored links.
• Remove scan verdict from Hotmail top navigation link in MSN searches.
• Improved autodetection of proxy from mozilla browser.
• Added user notification that healing action(s) failed.
• UI optimized for using with keyboard.
• Implemented new dialog for single and multiple resident/web shielded threat detection.
• Added confirmation dialog about deleting emc server.

Program update AVG Free 8.0.234

Improvements

• Core: New version of polymorphic virus Win32/Virut is now detected.