AVG is a British Antivirus company and Spyware is a software that facilitates spying.
Spyware role is to collect information or give access to its driver. It is considered a very sneaky software since it can obtain your details personal, professional or financial stored on your PC.
These days you often get to hear about online frauds being committed. Well, spyware is one of the reason behind them.
Spyware can collect financial information such as online banking passwords, or credit card information in no time. We often wonder how our Facebook displays advertisements of the products we are looking for, again Spyware. Advertisers use information derived from spyware to serve us relevant ads. Even government and police uses this software to collect information about us. Its also referred as govware and Policeware respectively.
As I said earlier Spyware is a sneaky software. It can provide you information in several shapes and ways. Few of them are as follows:
Keyloggers: this spyware will follow your keyboard strokes and may steal away your passwords as you key them in through keyboards. To get you protected from this, banks often provide Virtual Keyboards to enter banking passwords and ids.
Copy those cookies: some spyware will copy cookies. By doing this they are tracking your online footsteps and provide the same information to brands to serve you relevant advertisement.
Some may make changes to your system’s security settings.
They also steal processing power and internet bandwidth to share what it has stolen making your system relatively slower.
However, it is nearly impossible to identify that your system is affected by Spyware. One easy and free way to protect your PC is by installing AVG Antivirus Free. It offers spyware removal for free!!
AVG was first launched in 1992 in Czech Republic. And later in 2006, the AVG security package included anti-spyware.
AVG AntiVirus
AVG Antivirus has an anti-spyware, which prevents identity theft by detecting spyware. It also prevents adware which collect personal information. AVG Antivirus keeps network free from cyber threats. This makes sure all the information stored in the computer is safe and employees can work on it with full confidence.
If keylogger (as explained earlier) enters into your system, AVG May detect the spyware itself and warn you while taking an action against it.
AVG has its own pros cons. To start with, AVG is a great option to protect your PC from ransomware, viruses, worms, trojans or other internet borne challenges.
AVG Antivirus Free has recently added few more advancements. It now features Malware scans, Performance scans, real time security updates and malicious downloads swell.
AVG Anti-Spyware is very effective software to remove spyware, adware, dialers, hijackers and other threats to your system.
it includes many features like automatic online update, memory scan, registry scan, realtime protection and quarantine for suspicious files. AVG Anti-Spyware also includes analysis tools, you can see what processes is on, and which program is allowed to contact internet.
