Recently released free anti-virus Microsoft Security Essentials(MSSE) from Microsoft really impressive. Though it offers basic protection much like AVG free anti-virus, there are more reasons to prefer or sticking to AVG than shifting to MSSE.
1.AVG will remove USB drive viruses automatically
It is true that most users don’t make use of AVG properly, we can configure AVG to delete threats in USB drives automatically. Despite the fact that Pen drive viruses causing more problems through loop hole of Windows that is autorun.
Configure AVG to delete USB drive viruses automatically
Open AVG User Interface , click Tools > Advanced Settings Expand scans on the left hand side. Select Removable Device Scan on the right hand side enable removable device scan . Also check or enable automatically heal\remove infections. Click Apply and OK to save changes.
From now onwards AVG will scan and delete viruses or threats in USB drive automatically whenever you insert USB drive.
While MSSE will not have the option to automatically scan for viruses in USB drives, it has option to scan the USB drive while doing the schedule scan. Though MSSE will detect viruses from USB drives after you run them, the loss already will be occurred as the viruses enter into your PC automatically.
2.AVG link scanner protects from Malicious websites
If you are using AVG, then you are also getting protection while surf online that came with linkscanner . Linkscanner identifies and shows the rating for websites that appear in various search engine results like Google, Bing and Yahoo for browsers like IE and Firefox.
3.Email scanner scans incoming and outgoing email.
AVG’s email scanner will be always active and scans incoming and outgoing email .
4. AVG Link scanner detects malicious shortened links before you even click
Since shortened links getting common for sharing URLs online on social networking sites like twitter and other sites. Hackers using these shortened links to spread malware but AVG link scanner will detect malicious URL behind shortened links . As Twitter is integrated into to the daily use of internet user, linkscanner will be very helpful. Because twitter user don’t know where the link points to. Clicking on the link may download Trojans, viruses into his computer.
Any user don’t have to install AVG to use linkscanner, they can also install and use linkscanner along with other anti-viruses as well.
5.AVG does optimize scan
After installing AVG it will request to run the optimization scan as it scans for the safety exe and DLL system files. Scan of these files will be avoided and scan time will be reduced next time when you run.
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Security essentials scans usb's on insertion too.
@Danial Horton
No MSE will not scan USB drives automatically, we can configure AVG to scan and remove threats automatically on any removable media on insertion.
@Anonynous
What you said everything is right, I also used MSE and it's great. But scanning for viruses whenever USB drives plugged-in automatically gives more edge to use AVG than MSE.MSE doesn't have the option to scan USB drives automatically.That's why I prefered AVG over MSE. MSE also detects threats in real time.
This article is really one sided. It only lists information about AVG. MSSE can be configured to scan usb drives.
That’s right… and if you get malwarebytes too then it is even better!
Although I have used AVG for a dozen years, there is one gripe I have found since I booted up my new laptop with Win7 three days ago. The harddrive runs and runs and runs… even with the AC adapter cable disconnected. This seems like a bad option for battery drive machines, although it might not be noticed on a desktop machine.
I have already done an AVG virus scan, so I feel reasonably confident that is not the problem. Hey, this baby is only 3 days old! The task manager says the activity is from AVGCHSVA.
Any suggestions?