What else does AVG Antivirus do?

[james_k1988]

i installed avg ages ago and since then i;'ve saw that its running stuff when its not open. To be more specific theres stuff in teh task manager thats avg related. They have never cause any problems i just wanna know what there doing. Is it giveing me a firewall, stopping people getting into my com? or is it jus doing sfa lolanyone know

p.s. the programs running that i believe are AVG related are avgamsvr.exe, avgemc.exe. , avgupsvc.exe (i believe this is the update facility), avgwb.dat
You can have 3 guesses as to why i think they are AVG related

 

[acidosmosis]

Each task does different things, like scans email. I hate that about AVG, although I use it. No sense in having so many tasks for one program. Oh well. At least it is free and works.

 

[poertner_1274]

And as long as it isn't hogging resources, I'd say you don't have anything to worry about.