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AVG Internet Security 8.5 Overview

AVG Internet Security is complete security protection against all of the most serious Internet threats, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, hackers, and spam. Compatible with Windows Vista, AVG Internet Security is light on system resources, unobtrusive with no aggravating pop-ups.
AVG Internet Security version 8.5 adds new Identity Theft protection to help prevent unknown threats from stealing your personal information like bank and credit card details. It responds fairly quickly to new widespread malware attacks, within 4-6 hours according to AV-Test. AVG scans e-mail for viruses and provides IM protection as well.
 

Main Feature

 
• AVG protects against viruses, spyware, worms and trojans
• It helps prevent Identity Theft
• Screens downloads and IM for infections
• It filters out unwanted and fraudulent e-mails
• Its an Anti-Rootkit that protects against hidden rootkits
• In real time, it blocks poisoned web pages
• Blocks hacker attacks.

New Features

 
• It brings a new and complete level of computer protection against the newest threats.
• It includes new scanning engine together with rootkit scanner and extended protection for Internet threats (HTTP, Instant Messaging, Safe Search and Safe Surf), email protection with SPAM filter, Firewall and System tools.
• All functions are included in new, simple and intuitive user interface for easy control.
• It also includes Linkscanner Technology.

Interface Guidance

 
AVG interface is clean and straightforward. Give good results during rootkit tests. Its main window is fresh and above all simple to use, which is good. It is simply built with three tabs left and the top few menu options. The rest of the room is filled with 12 icons, each for their own part of the suite. Also in this area the status of each part is indicated. If you click on one of the twelve icons, then the detailed status of that component as well as information about what exactly and where it was last updated. The firewall is also the profile on the PC application.
The left tab is possible to scan the computer or an update. After an update on the updated components each briefly closed to the Windows Security Center and AVG itself, warning that the components are disabled. This can be very annoying, because there is such a regular balloon from the Security Center. AVG is one of the few anti virus providers somewhat Windows-compliance with guidelines in interface design, because there is a real menu available. From this bar help part can be achieved, as well as advanced settings. The institutions of AVG are pretty sophisticated and go far beyond simply on or off a particular part. Sometimes the settings moves upto four levels deep, as is the case with the antispam component. But for the average user are the optimal performance settings automatically.
 

What We Found

 
AVG walks you through the setup and configuration process with a few helpful tutorial screens. It also stays within its core competencies and offers you the various shields for e-mail filtering, Web-site filtering, spam filtering, and so forth. By using its own malware detection engine, AVG did superbly in both the on-demand and on-access detection of malware files, macro viruses, and scripts. It did well against the collected samples of Trojan horses, worms, password-stealers, and other nasties by identifying 95 percent of samples on average. It means this suite did reasonably well among the security suites tested. But the real web protection, however, comes from LinkScanner, a tool that looks for and scrubs malicious content from Web sites before it hits your browser. As per money, AVG Internet Security 8.5 is a good value that will do a strong job at protecting your computer.

Pros:

 
• The powerful AVG Resident Shield
• It filters out unwanted and fraudulent e-mails
• Screens downloads and IM for infections

Cons:

• AVG Firewall displayed a high learning curve, scored below average in pro-actively identifying unknown malware.
• AVG doesn’t provide telephone technical support or a free online user’s forum.