After releasing Avast Free antivirus 2018, Avast software has released AVG Free Antivirus 2018 v18.1, the installer comes without Zen and bring protection against exploits, malicious PE files and Shell code.
If you don’t know, the previous version of AVG Free released in Dec 2017 hasn’t installed Zen component, more smart change in version 18.1 is they’ve removed the Zen from their installers.
Zen users can still able to access and manage subscription and other AVG paid products by clicking the ‘My AVG’ menu present in the main window.
READ: AVG Free Antivirus 17.9: Avast Removes Zen
AVG Free Antivirus 18.1 with anti-exploit module
Similar to Avast Free antivirus, AVG free includes anti-exploit module that has no UI and you can able to enable or disable it in troubleshooting section of AVG settings.
changelog
1) NEW AVG Installers without ZEN
- common setup now used also for AVG product
- only AVG Antivirus is installed now
2) New Anti-Exploit module for better protection against exploits, shellcode and other malicious PE files
3) Changes in minimal installation components (now Behavioral shield is included)
Know: Which Avast components you should install for Minimal Protection?
Its good to know, you can avoid installing unnecessary crap by installing AVG with minimum protection, you can choose this when you select ‘Custom’ after running the setup file.
4. It is now possible to add more files into virus chest at once
5. Improved dump creation when our process crashes
6. Added support for fallback download server (using HTTPS) in setup in case standard servers don’t work
7. Warning is displayed when logging off from windows during installation (so installation is finished properly)
8. Optimized scanning of downloaded executable files
Since AVG and Avast shares technologies and new features in between them, you should know both products changelog looks similar to one another.
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