AVG 9.0 Full Version has been released

This version is said to be up to 50% faster than its predecessor, thanks to more sophisticated caching techniques and memory use. Boot times have also been reduced by around 10 to 15 percent and overall the installation process on the full-fledged suite has been shortened from 22 screens to 11.

In addition to the anti-phishing protection offered through LinkScanner, AVG 9.0 now also includes additional protection against identity theft in the physical world (for US customers only) with the AVG Identity Theft Recovery Unit (ITRU). Meanwhile, firewall enhancements include a complete redesign and a new cloud-based white listing database to reduce the amount of user input required to secure a PC.

• Alert Manager: Fixed problem with e-mail headers being displayed inside e-mail body.
• Core: Detection of the next modification of Virut has been added.
• Email Scanner: Out of process scanning newly used in transport agent based MS Exchange plug-ins.
• Firewall: Chkdsk scan is not blocked during OS boot.
• Firewall: Trusted database applications have higher priority and do not wait for other traffic popup windows.
• Firewall: Fixed problem with FW service crash.
• Firewall: Smooth conversion of Firewall configuration during AVG 9 installation over AVG 8.
• Firewall: User system rules are always blocked.
• Safe Search: Fix Internet Explorer 8 crashing repeatedly during searching.
• User Interface: Fixed several minor graphical user interface leaks in Windows.
• User Interface: Smooth conversion of Firewall configuration during AVG 9 installation over AVG 8.
• User Interface: Three new alert manager rules for IDP events were added.
• User Interface: Fixed problem with selecting paths containing semicolon in the path tree control.
• And many other more features to come.