Review by Joe Marino

I installed this on 3 seperate PCs in my house. All of the PCs run Win 7 (64). On this PC I am writing from, the installation went super easily. I was able to turn off features I did not want. On my wife’s PC the installation was significantly more problematic. I could not turn off some of the features and it would put her PC into a restart loop. She did not have a virus. I had just built the PC with a fresh HD. Eventually I had to remove it and use another AV suite. Other than that little problem this software as an anti virus is fantastic.

I chose not to use the other internet paranoia software included because it slowed down my internet browsing or game playing. It would lock out some popular MMOs and not let me log in to the server. Disabling the windows firewall, selecting allow program and so on would still not let me play. I have intentionally downloaded a virus laden file to check it (it was packed as a .rar). Once the file was unpacked AVG caught the virus and put it into quarantine.

Pros:n+ Anti Virus portion of the program is really goodn+ Nice desktop widgetn+ Fairly unobtrusive in AV mode onlynnCons:n- The internet security portion is sometimes impossible to turn off (difficult to find).n- Seems to block software you want to use, even selecting - Allow -.

Summary:nSo for a great antivirus, get AVG antivirus. If you think you may have to have everything you do on the web then this may be for you.