AVG Anti-Virus 2012

Exceptional anti-virus protection

Anti-virus protection that automatically updates to protect you from continually evolving threats. As hackers develop new techniques, AVG’s research labs are constantly processing web data to provide new defenses to keep you automatically protected.

Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Spyware

Our Anti-Virus technology protects you from falling victim to (or unwittingly spreading) a virus, worm, or Trojan horse. The first layer of protection is traditional anti-virus, which keeps known threats out of your system by matching them to a database.
AVG Anti-Spyware protects you from Spyware and Adware that can keep track of your personal information.
AVG Resident Shield provides an additional layer of protection by examining files for threats as they are being copied opened or saved and prevents you opening infected files.

AVG Protective Cloud Technology

Emerging threats are identified “in the cloud” and prevented from infecting your computer via AVG’s automatic updates to your anti-virus software.

AVG Community Protection Network

Information about the latest threats is collected from customers who choose to participate, enabling us to constantly identify new threats, supporting everyone in the AVG community and helping us to provide superior anti-virus protection.

AVG Identity Protection™

AVG Identity Protection™ goes way beyond the typical identity theft protection software. Not only will we keep you safe from online threats - we’re also able to see when anything potentially bad might be happening on your PC, and stop it before it can do any damage.

Be informed and in control

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Get faster, safer Internet access when you need it most. With proactive advice from AVG, the power to boost performance and enhance protection is in your hands.

AVG Do Not Track

Brings the control over your privacy back to you. AVG Do Not Track helps you identify and block Ad Networks, Social Buttons, and Web Analytics that potentially track your activity. In addition, you can also choose to notify those websites about your preference not to be tracked.

AVG Advisor

Proactively monitors your computer for problems and suggests solutions for a better browsing experience. Receive notifications about bandwidth-eating applications and high memory usage so you can take appropriate action.

AVG WiFi Guard

Avoid the rogue WiFi access points hackers use to spy on you. AVG WiFi Guard alerts you if your PC attempts to access an unproven WiFi network – even if it has the same name as a network you know and trust.

Gaming and surfing without interruptions

Get on with your surfing and gaming without interference. Scans operate when you are away from your PC, and it also knows when you are gaming and ensures that the security operates in the background only, leaving you free to play.

AVG Smart Scanning

Our intelligent and lightweight smart scanning technology operates in high-priority mode while you’re away from your PC and drops into low-priority mode when you move your mouse or strike a key. AVG Smart Scanning ignores files it has scanned in the past and already knows are safe, enabling vast improvements in scan times.

Game Mode

AVG’s Game Mode provides non-stop protection during non-stop action in multi-player games like Call of Duty without annoying lags and freezes caused by scheduled updates and scans. AVG safeguards your digital profile against teams of hackers who are crawling the web, specifically looking to steal your game rewards and sell them for real money.

Auto-Fix

AVG 2012 constantly monitors your protection level and reports back to our labs team if it detects a security risk. Next to the flagged alert message you will see an Auto-Fix button -- once click resolves the problem. The Auto-Fix button in AVG 2012 will automatically correct errors and set itself back to the best protection mode.

Safe downloads

Files are checked before you download them without you having to do a thing. AVG Anti-Virus will also protect you when exchanging files through popular instant messaging like MSN and Yahoo.

AVG Online Shield™

AVG Online Shield checks files before you download them and ensures online chat links are safe. It checks files against both AVG’s Scanning Engine and our own LinkScanner technology. Instant Messaging Protection also makes sure you are safe when exchanging files using ICQ, MSN and Yahoo! instant messenger.

Surf and search the web safely

You want to search and surf, but you don’t ever want to go to any infected websites. AVG helps you out by clearly alerting you to threats and keeping you clear of them.

LinkScanner® Search-Shield

AVG LinkScanner® shows safety ratings in your search engine results, allowing you to assess the safety of a site before you go there. Search-Shield works with Google, Yahoo!, Bing and other popular search providers, by placing a safety rating next to each link, letting you know which sites can be trusted and which are to be avoided. Sites are rated in four categories, each of which is colour-coded for easy recognition.

LinkScanner® Surf-Shield

AVG Surf-Shield actively checks web pages in real-time at the only time it matters - before you land on that page. If it detects something suspicious, it prevents you from visiting the site. Surf-Shield protects you both when you click a link to a web page and every time you enter a web address directly into your browser. In AVG 2011 we have improved LinkScanner further to give our best detection rates ever.

Share your life on Facebook, not viruses

With AVG protecting your system, you can chat and message your friends on Facebook and other social networks in the knowledge that each web page and link is checked for safety. You won’t pick up a malicious link from your friends - and you won’t send one either!

AVG Social Networking Protection

AVG Social Networking Protection is powerful in AVG 2012 and is unique to AVG. Links that are exchanged within Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are automatically checked in real-time so that you and your friends are safe.
AVG Social Networking Protection will activate as soon as you install AVG - there’s no need to bother with cumbersome account or application settings.

Free support from techies that care

AVG understands the need to stay safely connected to the web no matter your geographical location or time of day - our mission is to provide ongoing peace of mind on a 24/7 basis.

AVG Support

We have a team of experts that you can turn to at anytime for technical support. Regardless of being an installation query, a product configuration or an AVG technical related question we are here to take the stress out of your life and make sure you are fully protected.

What our users say

I really love your anti-virus product, I use it every day to protect my computer, and it really is helpful to look in my virus vault on occasion to see what nasties I may have picked up on Facebook! Bravo, AVG! It is A FINE PRODUCT you have made!! I am a believer!

Kim-Ha Albert (From Frankfurt, Germany. Lives in Seattle, Washington)

AVG paid version has saved my computer on many occasions while watching music videos and looking for online games also from when someone who doesn’t have anti-malware or virus protection has sent me an e-mail, so I have warned them and told them to get AVG as well.

Tony Greybeard (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

I purchased and installed AVG on my new computer in April last year. Since then I have not had any problems. I can only assume that AVG is detecting and killing off all the Bugs before they get anywhere near my computer so one less thing to worry about. Well done AVG!

John Jacobs (Waterlooville, England)

I started with Free AVG two years ago after years of the competitors. Competitors seem to cause more problems than they solve, including slowdowns and freezing. Then, I got AVG through the suggestion of a friend and have been nothing but satisfied. I will not switch to anyone else and recommend AVG to everyone.

Jonathan Siegel  (London, England)

I love AVG Anti-Virus because it prevents viruses from coming in your computer and eliminates them on spot. Not to mention they scan links on the internet making sure you don't go on a site that will have a bunch of spyware installing on your computer. Also, I feel much safer, now that AVG now has a social networking protector and a convenient gadget just to scan your computer instead of opening the AVG interface. I love AVG and I would recommend this Anti-Virus program to anyone!

Coley Dixon (Durham, North Carolina)