AVG Antivirus 2012 review

Introduction

Today we’re going to revisit a new AVG product, AVG Anti-Virus 2012 . AVG Anti-Virus 2012  protects against many kinds of malware, including Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, and Rootkits. It also detects PUPs (Potentially Unwanted Programs) such as keygens or hacktools. Anyway, enough blab and let’s see AVG 2012 impress!

Features

AVG Anti-Virus software uses layers of protection. The first layer is traditional antivirus, which recognizes threats by matching them to a database of known threats. It also defends against spyware and adware in order to protect personal information. Another layer, AVG Resident Shield, prevents you from opening infected files. Every day there are new threats that aren’t in any antivirus software vendor’s database. AVG collects data on fast-breaking infections from the installed base of users who opt to share zero-day data and then updates customer PCs automatically. This security product monitors your protection level and reports back to the AVG lab if it finds a problem. The alert will pop up an Auto-Fix button, and if you press it, AVG will make the correction and set itself back to the best protection mode.

AVG does not intrude on you unnecessarily. It watches for idle time before it tries to scan. And it is intelligent enough to ignore any files that it has already scanned. It has a game mode so that you can concentrate on a multiplayer game without enduring scheduled updates and scans. AVG also guards your digital gaming profiles against hackers who crawl the web to steal your World of Warcraft pets and sell them for real money.

AVG Anti-Virus software protects against internet evils in quite a few other ways as well. Whenever you exchange links within Facebook, mySpace or Twitter, AVG checks them. The AVG Social Networking Protection feature activates upon installation. As you surf the internet, AVG will prevent you from landing on a site that looks suspicious. And it places a safety rating for any link returned by a search engine.

3. Scan Analysis

AVG offers different types of scan modes, namely

1. User Sensitive
2. Low Priority
3. Medium Priority
4. High Priority

User Sensitive mode is the recommended mode. Because, it changes the resource consumption depending on the usage of user. It uses left over resources. If you are using resource intensive application, then scan will automatically slow down and when you close that resource intensive program, then the scan will automatically speeds up. You won’t notice a slow down in this user sensitive mode.

But, there is a small glitch here. Even though User Sensitive mode is recommended, custom scan or Shell extension scan (right-click scan, which we normally use to scan USB drives etc) is always done in high priority mode by default, which slows down the system. If this custom scan also uses User Sensitive mode by default then it’d be better.

Scan Speed :

Scan speed varies from system to system. As you all know it depends on system specs, the other important thing on which it depends is the type of files. I have 5 GB of videos (445 files in total), the scan took just 32 seconds to finish. When I scanned 5.9GB of installers and compressed files, then it took 15 minutes to finish. So, the scan speed and duration depends on your system specs and the majority type of files. So, even though if I say that AVG scanned my computer at some xyz MB/sec, it may not be true in your case.
Another remarkable thing in AVG is that, the scan duration reduced considerably on repetitive scans. Take a look at the below screenshot.

The first whole computer scan (at user sensitive mode) took 3 hours 20 mins to finish. After sometime I initiated the second whole computer scan (at user sensitive mode), but it ended abruptly because of power issues with my UPS. By that time, AVG has scanned 93% in around 1 hour 30 mins. The next day, I initiated whole computer scan (at user sensitive mode) again. This is the third time and this time the scan took just 45 minutes to finish. So, from this we can observe that the scan duration will reduce considerably with each scan.

Installation

The efficiency of installing AVG Anti-Virus 2012 is of the highest levels, even when the product is being setup by less technically savvy users. Installation is quick and straightforward and does not require a system reboot.

Ease of use

AVG features a simple and easy-to-use interface with a handy tool bar that is fairly straightforward for any user. Specifically for people with less time or interest in antivirus scanning, you can access a one-click solution to scan and repair your computer without having to deal with any complicated terminology or processes.

AVG Smart Scanning allows the program to operate in high priority mode while the computer is inactive, then switches to low priority mode when a key or the mouse is touched. In addition, Smart Scanning flags already scanned files as safe, saving time and system resources the next time a scan is run.

Help & support

AVG includes 24/7 support for the lifetime of the Network Edition of Anti-Virus software. They can be reached over the phone or via email. Online you can browse through helpful resources, including video tutorials, a searchable FAQs section, user forums and product documentation.

Overview

General, AVG computer virus 2012 is definitely an remarkable computer virus program. They have continued to cultivate in the past and it is now probably the greatest in the industry. It’s been screened on Or Windows 7 and 7 and the email address particulars are favourable.