AVG helps you stay safe while you shop and bank online, search or surf the web, download music, documents and pictures, and e-mail or instant messaging chat. Every document or file you download, every web page or link you click on, is scanned by AVG before you open it. Unlike other security products, we stop the threats before they reach your hard drive and become a problem. Safe Internet surfing is now possible.
"Traditional" viruses and spy-ware keep on growing every day we see tens of thousands of new examples in our labs. And online criminals are getting smarter they keep inventing types of threats that have never been seen before, usually aimed at stealing your bank account or credit card details. So AVG has developed an extra layer of identity theft protection that sits on top of traditional anti-virus and anti-spyware software. It looks for changes in your PC's behaviour that are caused by new threats and then stops them in their tracks.
Cyber criminals are also setting up their own web sites or poisoning legitimate web sites to distribute all sorts of malware over the internet. These web "exploits" are often around for less than a day, shutting up shop once they have infected enough people. So to counter this, we have developed real-time protection that will give you safety ratings for web pages and stop you opening them at the only time that matters when you click on a link.