• Properties:

• System Process: No
• Background Process: Yes
• Application Process:Yes
• Common Path:
  [% C: \ Program Files \ Grisoft \ AVG \ avgserv9.exe %]
• Uses Network:No
• Uses Internet:No

Description:

The avgserv9.exe is a process file that is associated with the AVG anti-virus program. The avgserv9.exe is an executable file that basically functions as a program launcher of the application AVG which is an anti-spyware, anti-malicious software, anti-virus, anti-adware application. The executable file avgserv9.exe supports the AVG software which scans the system for known malicious software files that are residing in the system.

A system tray icon is provided by the process avgserv9.exe, once installed. The icon of the program avgserv9.exe is capable of displaying a visible window when it is accessed by clicking on the icon. The visible window that the file avgserv9.exe generates when activated will scan the system for known viruses, spywares, ad-wares and the like for quarantine. The AVG program which houses the file avgserv9.exe and can be located in [% C: \ Program Files \ Grisoft \ AVG \ avgserv9.exe%] folder.

The purpose of the program avgserv9.exe is to block and remove any malicious programs to be installed inside the computer over the internet. If there are malicious software and / or spy wares that are residing inside a system before a user installed the AVG program, the user can use the scan feature of the software to search the computers resources and storage devices for files proven to be harmful to the system and quarantines it so that it would no longer contaminate other files and spread the infection. It restricts the virus or malware to access a certain computer even if it is successful in bypassing the firewall that is pre-installed in a system.

The avgserv9.exe usually is a safe process that runs during startup since this file process uses minimal resources and can be manually started by the end user. It is also safe for the program AVG software which is incorporated with the process file avgserv9.exe, to be kept as it is in the system, since there are no reports that this particular file avgserv9.exe had conflicted with other device drivers or Windows system core processes that are running inside the computer. The process avgserv9.exe is associated with the Microsoft Windows operating system but it is still up to the end users decision to enable or disable the avgserv9.exe from running. The file avgserv9.exe is a safe component to your system and there is no need to terminate this process if your system uses AVG application.

Grisoft created the program avgserv.exe as an accessory of the application AVG Anti-virus.

Recommendations:

This is a safe process. There is no necessity to remove this process from your system or change it in any way.