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AVG Internet Security 2013 Review: Adequate antivirus program gets a makeover

January 28, 2013

AVG has given its Internet Security suite a makeover for the new year. AVG Internet Security 2013 ($55 for one year, as of 12/17/12) now has a pretty, Windows 8-style tiled interface, complete with large, colorful buttons that are optimized for a touchscreen. That said, it seems as if AVG has put most of its effort into improving its program’s looks, as the suite managed a respectable, but below-average, showing in our tests. In our real-world attack test, AVG completely blocked 94.4 percent of attacks and partially blocked 5.6 percent of attacks. This indicates how well the program will block new malware attacks when it encounters them in the wild, and this is a good score, actually. However, since five of the nine security suites we tested completely blocked 100 percent of attacks, this score still puts AVG in the bottom half of the list. AVG’s ability to detect 97.8 percent of known malware samples seems respectable at first glance, but it’s actually the worst detection rate of all the suites we tested. All of the other security suites were able to detect at least 98.8 percent of malware samples, while the top contender in this category, Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2013, was able to detect 100 percent of samples. AVG also flagged five safe files (out of a pool of over 250,000) as being dangerous; while this isn’t a bad false-positive rate, almost all of our other testedsuites posted lower rates. In our system cleanup test, AVG detected 100 percent of infections, but only disabled 90 percent, and only managed to completely clean up 60 percent. This isn’t a great rate—F-Secure Internet Security 2013 managed to completely clean up 90 percent of malicious files—but it’s also not the worst of the suites we tested. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025957/avg-internet-security-2013-review-adequate-antivirus-program-gets-a-makeover.html