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Report enhanced set of Potentially Unwanted Programs (off by default) - mark to detect

extended packages of spyware: programs that are perfectly ok and harmless when acquired

from the manufacturer directly, but can be misused for malicious purposes later. This is an

additional measure that increases your computer's security even more, however it can

possibly block legal programs, and is therefore switched off by default.

Scan files on close (off by default) - on-close scanning ensures that AVG scans active

objects (e.g. applications, documents …) when they are being opened, and also when they

are being closed; this feature helps to protect your computer against some types of

sophisticated virus.

Scan boot sector of removable media (on by default)

Use Heuristics (on by default) - heuristic analysis will be used for detection (dynamic

emulation of the scanned object’s instructions in a virtual computer environment).

Scan files referred in registry (on by default) - this parameter defines that AVG will scan

all executable files added to the startup registry to avoid a known infection being executed

upon next computer startup.

Enable thorough scanning (off by default) - in specific situations (in a state of extreme

emergency) you may check this option to activate the most thorough algorithms that will

check all possibly threatening objects in-depth. Remember though that this method is

rather time consuming.

Enable Instant Messaging protection and P2P download protection (on by default) -

check this item if you wish to verify that the instant messaging communication (e.g. AIM,

Yahoo!, ICQ, Skype, MSN Messenger, ...) and data downloaded within Peer-to-Peer

networks (networks allowing direct connection between clients, without a server, which is

potentially dangerous; typically used to share music files) are virus free.