AVG (software) - Resource Requirements

Resource Requirements

AVG usually supports several products and usually the two latest versions of each, as well as the AVG Beta Program. Additionally, each product is available for only certain operating environments ("System Requirements").

Version 2013 of AVG (Basic,Internet Security....) released in 2012. it gives high security with no cons and has a new outlook... but takes little time to be installed.

Version 2012 of AVG (Basic, Internet Security, ...) released in 2011. AVG also advertise] 3rd party services to remove what AVG doesn't/can't.

Version 2011 of 5 AVG products (Free, Business, Home) for AVG & AVG Internet Security, ...) (A fake version has also appeared in this version as a virus. The fake version may take internet explorer to pretend to warn them that a site contains malicious software and redirect people to a secure less sites in the internet. It can block access to task manager and other legitimate software and misleads people into paying the full version of the fake software. It also shuts down the system with Netpumper. It's mostly recommended to copy and paste the URL so they can avoid an unexpected shutdown. This rogue version cannot be uninstalled normally, they must use any malware removal in order to remove the fake AVG software and its malware that does not normally install with the software.)

Version 9 of AVG (Free, Internet Security, ...), released before June 2010.

Version 8.5, both AVG Anti-Virus and AVG Internet Security require at least 256 MB of RAM for the computer as a minimum. The comparatively high use of paged physical RAM has led to crashes with some software, such as the Half-Life 2 series.

Version 7.5 of AVG Free requires a Pentium (or compatible) CPU with 300 MHz and between 64–256 MB of RAM, depending on operating system (at least 64 MB with Windows 9x, at least 128 MB with Windows 2000 or newer, with more RAM recommended).
An additional caveat with version 7.5 in Windows XP, which is a multi-user system that allows more than one user to be logged in at a time, is that scheduled scans ran as separate processes, which created a situation in which there were two scheduled scans, one in each active account, running simultaneously and causing heavy hard disk throttling and considerable system lag. This fault was finally fixed in version 8.0 of the program.

During its version 6.0 run, AVG was known for its conservative resource requirements . The AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition required 16 MB of RAM and 20 MB of space on the hard drive.