Review by Blorg Lirgemschlip

The 2011 AVG Internet Security suite appears to have all the same bells and whistles as the 2010 edition with a few added features that are both hit and miss depending on the operating system and size of the hard drive. 2011 is still using AVG 9 Help dialogue which is interesting to me. I feel like this simple aspect should be updated as often as the program as is updated. Still, that is just a minor little notation. The registry cleaner/performance booster actually seems to be one of the most problematic program features for me personally. It has caused more trouble then anything else and I wound up having to do a complete system restore to get my computer back up after some serious freezing issues and performance jitters after running it.

However, this program DOES have a lot of perks to it. The viral scanning, while somewhat time consuming, is extremely efficient and actually warned and took care of a few trojans/worms that were in my system that THREE other antivirus software scans did not detect. This boosts my faith in AVG as a product and makes me wish that my system were more up to date to run AVG 2011 to it’s full capacity. AVG is definitely the most dependable of any anti-virus and spyware detecting softwares on the market today.

I do have to say that this really, really drains the life from my system. This, however, is probably more to do with the fact that my computer is almost obsolete at 3 years old and running Vista on a 32 bit system. Running this program on a newer system running windows 7 should be speedy and effortless. For those of us with systems that are a little bit dated it can be a bit of a struggle juggling performance and scanning at the same time. That was an issue for me.

But, AVG is amazing. The scanning is thorough and if you want a lot of extra features this product is AMAZING. If you just want a basic antivirus scan you might want to try something a little less complex…but, for the price, this is an amazing deal.