Smith, Co-Editor Virus & Spyware Protection: 72% AVG's overall virus and malware protection performed well in some of our tests but missed the mark in others. For our first set of tests, we heavily infected our testing PCs with a host of malware, including trojans, viruses, rogueware, etc, then ran a full-system scan with AVG AntiVirus. AVG did a good job, detecting and removing the majority of embedded threats. Unfortunately, our browsers were still hijacked by foreign adware, and there were still a lot of leftover desktop icons, despite their being rendered inactive by AVG, leaving the impression that malware remained even though all that was left were the harmless icons. When we looked for any malware lurking in the background, consistently we found nothing, which was impressive. AVG's real-time protection fared well, too. For our tests, we installed a clean and updated version of AVG, then tried to download and install a wide array of malware samples. Malware files were instantly blocked or flagged for removal by AVG. The adware that did get through was cleaned up after a reboot, when nearly everything was removed leaving our testing PCs good as new. Now for the concerning point: antiphishing. During our tests, we sampled a wide range of live, active phishing sites to see how well an antivirus software will do. AVG didn't block any of them. In fact, we thought this had to be an error, and double- and triple- checked on different test PCs to make sure AVG was configured correctly. AVG just failed to detect or block any phishing sites. We even went one step further and tested some older phishing links that all antivirus software should easily detect.
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