Review by Lynn

I installed AVG Internet Security 3-user 2011 on my husband’s HP laptop running Windows XP 3, which is about 7 years old. It took quite a long time to install, but surprisingly there doesn’t seem to be a marked slowness when he surfs the web during a scan. This program allows you to schedule scans when you want them & you can set the scan priority too. Setting ‘scan priority’ to high is the quickest way to scan, but will slow down the performance of your PC if you use it during the scan. I set his laptop at ‘user sensitive’ which will take longer to finish a scan while he’s using his laptop but will cause minimal slowness for him…then when he’s not using his laptop the scan will run at ‘high priority’ & finish quicker. This is a great feature. The ‘whole’ computer scan took 1hr, 19 min, 22 sec, to finish using the ‘user sensitive’ scan priority.

Although the AVG security toolbar takes up more room than he’d like, its built-in LinkScanner function will show the site’s safety rating. It also will show the safety rating of search results when you search using Yahoo, Google, or Bing/MSN.

A normal scan will not detect or remove rootkits so be sure to run the AntiRoot Kit scan, found in Scan Options, manually to protect your PC from this malware. (One thing a rootkit might do is steal your passwords) The AntiRoot Kit scan took 4 min 31 sec on my husband’s laptop.

Identity Protection makes sure your passwords, credit card numbers, banking account numbers, etc, are safe. If it detects a problem, it will shut down the process.

This program has many features which are fully explained in Amazon’s Product Description. I haven’t experienced any difficulties & will update my review if my opinion of this program changes.