VG has come a long way through their well known free antivirus software. They've since branched out and created a worthy Internet security suite.
While their free antivirus software has served many consumers over the years, it serves only as light protection, since it lacks firewall software, download protection, and several other critical features.
A more heavy-duty Internet security suite was needed sooner or later, and this year AVG comes out with a respectable product: not perfect, but respectable.
The features that didn't stand up to our rigorous tests included: IM protection, anti-phishing, and AVG's inconsistent customer support.
TOP FEATURES
Good real-time protection
Adequate firewall
Nice user interface
On the plus side, AVG's durable antivirus engine proved top-notch. Their real-time protection proved to be as good as their best competition. The firewall for AVG Internet Security 2012 was not as strong as we'd like to see but reasonably secure.
The manual and USB scanning were thorough, although AVG doesn't automatically prompt for an automatic scan of USB drives. Even still, the majority of our malware threats were easily detected and cleaned.
Their customer support is set up via a third party company, which can make serious technical support somewhat confusing.
Despite some issues and being outmatched at some tasks when you compare antivirus software performance head-to-head, AVG Internet Security 2012 proves itself a worthy competitor and a very reasonable choice to secure your PC.
