techtrickz» AVG antivirus free http://techtrickz.com Software, technology news, Microsoft, android, iPhone, Windows, web apps, how to stuffs Wed, 23 May 2012 02:37:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= How to Update AVG Free Antivirus Offline (Quick tip) http://techtrickz.com/how-to/how-to-update-avg-free-antivirus-offline-quick-tip/ http://techtrickz.com/how-to/how-to-update-avg-free-antivirus-offline-quick-tip/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:16:16 +0000 Kannan http://techtrickz.com/?p=2630 AVGAVG Free edition updates automatically when you have an internet connection, but sometimes you even have to protect your PC from viruses when you are offline or a PC that do not have internet connection.

Here is how to update AVG Free edition offline. On a computer with an internet connection go to the AVG update download page and click on the virus definitions ‘lavi’ files.

Download and copy it to a USB pen drive or CD and transfer it to the offline computer that you want to update AVG Free.

Now open your Free AVG antivirus and in the menu bar, choose Tools – Update from directory. Find the virus defenition file on your hard disk and click OK.

Similar topic: How to enable scheduled update in AVG Free edition?

]]> http://techtrickz.com/how-to/how-to-update-avg-free-antivirus-offline-quick-tip/feed/ 1 AVG Internet Security 2011 Free For One Year http://techtrickz.com/security/avg-internet-security-2011-free-for-one-year/ http://techtrickz.com/security/avg-internet-security-2011-free-for-one-year/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:30:24 +0000 Kannan http://techtrickz.com/?p=1843 AVG-Internet-Security-2011If you’re looking for a good security suite for your PC that provides multiple layers of protection for everything you do online, then the new AVG Internet Security 2011 is a good option. The AVG Internet Security Suite 2011 does a good job when it comes to protecting your digital world – you don’t have to worry about identity theft, viruses, or visiting harmful sites.

The new AVG Protective Cloud Technology and AVG Community Protection Network make sure you receive the best protection.

Here is a good opportunity to grab a Free one year license to AVG Internet Security 2011. Just visit here and fill in the form with your email address plus the name of the person who recommended to you and click continue to download the product.AVG-Internet-Security-2011

However, you can still download the free version of AVG Antivirus 2011 that includes basic necessities such as the anti-virus, spyware and LinkScanner.

]]> http://techtrickz.com/security/avg-internet-security-2011-free-for-one-year/feed/ 7 How to Fix AVG 9 MSVC Redistributable Installation Error http://techtrickz.com/how-to/how-to-fix-avg-9-msvc-redistributable-installation-error/ http://techtrickz.com/how-to/how-to-fix-avg-9-msvc-redistributable-installation-error/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:55:06 +0000 Kannan http://techtrickz.com/?p=1644 AVGAVG is a well-known antivirus application and its free version is most popular among users. But few people, especially Windows XP users, have issues while installing the latest free version of AVG 9.0.

When you try to installing AVG 9.0 free edition, it stops and displays an error message: “MSVC Redistributables installation failed. Installation of AVG cannot continue” Or “MSVC Redistributables installer requires immediate restart. Installation of AVG cannot continue”.

Most often rebooting your PC and re-installing AVG solve this issue, but if the problem still persists, following methods should solve the problem.

  1. For Windows XP, you need to download the latest version of Microsoft Visual C++ libraries and update it. (Download Microsoft Visual C++ libraries for 32bit / 64bit).
  2. For Windows 7 and Vista users disabling UAC while installing AVG may solve the issue.
  3. AVG has also released a fix for this issue. Download msvcfix.zip from AVG and extract it. Put the .bat file in the same directory of AVG and run the msvcfix.bat file. Installing AVG 9 should work by using this method. (Via - AVG)
]]> http://techtrickz.com/how-to/how-to-fix-avg-9-msvc-redistributable-installation-error/feed/ 2 Free utility for regularly updating AVG Free Antivirus http://techtrickz.com/security/free-utility-for-regularly-updating-avg-free-antivirus/ http://techtrickz.com/security/free-utility-for-regularly-updating-avg-free-antivirus/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:50:38 +0000 Kannan http://techtrickz.com/?p=573 To get protection from the latest malwares, antivirus programs should be updated regularly. Most commercial antivirus programs do this automatically, though there are differences in update frequency.

Lack of regular virus signature updating is the main drawback of free antivirus programs. Free version gets lower priority than the commercial one.

AVG antivirus free version does not allow users to schedule updates. Updates are scheduled only one time at the Windows start-up or you need to do this manually.

But the big problem is, most often, at the start-up internet connection is not active, therefore, the Anti-Virus remains out of date until the user do update manually. But as a manual operation, this is not being done usually.

AVG-update-schedulerHere is a free utility, AVUS (Anti-Virus Update Service), for updating AVG free antivirus (AVG 8.5+). This utility does automatically what users would do manually.

You can set the update frequency in minutes or hour from the option menu. It executes a temporary batch file every certain amount of time invoking AVG Anti-Virus to do updates.

You can download AVUS (Anti-Virus Update Service) at: http://avus.sourceforge.net/

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