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Specifically, AVG Advisor monitors the following:

The state of any currently opened web browser. Web browsers may overload the

memory, especially if multiple tabs or windows have been opened for some time, and

consume too much of system resources, i.e. slowing down your computer. In such

situation, restarting the web browser usually helps.

Running Peer-To-Peer connections. After using the P2P protocol for sharing files, the

connection can sometimes remain active, using up certain amount of your bandwidth. As a

result, you can see web browsing slowdown.

Unknown network with a familiar name. This usually only applies to users who connect

to various networks, typically with portable computers: If a new, unknown network has the

same name as a well-known, frequently used network (e.g. Home or MyWifi), confusion can

occur, and you can accidentally connect to a completely unknown and potentially unsafe

network. AVG Advisor can prevent this by warning you that the known name actually

represents a new network. Of course, if you decide that the unknown network is safe, you

can save it to an AVG Advisor list of known networks so that it is not reported again in the

future.

In each of these situation, AVG Advisor warns you of the possible problem that might occur, and it

provides the name and icon of the conflicting process, or application. Also, AVG Advisor suggests

what steps should be taken to avoid the possible problem.

Supported web browsers

The feature works with the following web browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari.

5.7. AVG Gadget

The AVG gadget

is displayed on the Windows desktop (Windows Sidebar). This application is only

supported in the operating systems Windows Vista and Windows 7. The AVG gadget offers

immediate access to the most important AVG Internet Security 2012 function, i.e. scanning and

updating: