January 11, 2007
Review: Grisoft AVG 7.5 Internet Security Suite
Richard Kuper
The Kuper Report
http://TheKuperReport.com
If you are looking for an all-in-one desktop software solution for preventing viruses, spyware, spam, and other security issues, and at a very reasonable price, Grisoft's AVG 7.5 Internet Security Suite may be the product for you.
The product contains the following:
The product was installed on a PC running Windows XP and wizards made it very easy to install and set up. As with the installation of any new software, it is always wise to choose the check-for-updates option after the product has fully installed (usually after a reboot).
Once the suite is up and running, the entire suite can automatically check for and install updates for whichever module has an update. You want to stay current so make sure this is your setting.
The software firewall is your second line of defense, right after a hardware firewall, to prevent bad things to get onto your PC from connecting to the internet, and to prevent bad people from getting remote access to your PC.
The antivirus program updates daily or as frequently as new viruses are identified. No viruses have gotten through and so it has found none when scanning my outgoing email. You can set the antivirus program to do regularly scheduled scans of your PC.
Because my setup is such that no email actually gets onto my PC, I was unable to test the antispam feature, but others who use this product have told me that it works very well.
There is a test center application that allows quick scans to be accomplished for individual problems or for an individual user. There is also an integrated virus encyclopedia.
If I have any gripes it is with the antispyware module, and I have this gripe with all of the antispyware products on the market today. All antispyware products on the market today incorrectly flag legitimate tracking cookies that if blocked prevent legitimate income from being earned or business leads tracked. I've previously written about this in the article "Not All Cookies Are Bad". That means that the user would somehow need to know to not accept the recommendation to block certain cookies. I truly wish all the antispyware makers would fix this problem. Having made my point about this oversight in all the antispyware products on the market, the AVG antispyware module does an otherwise excellent job of finding and removing spyware that may be on your PC. You can schedule antispyware scans to run at regularly scheduled times.
The suite is competitively priced. You can buy the product with a 2-year subscription for updates for only $69.95 for a single user copy, and the price gets even better if you have multiple PCs.
Before installing and testing the suite, I previously tested Grisoft's free antivirus product, and that worked as well as the one that comes with this suite.
The bottom line. As pointed out in my article "So how secure is your PC?", it is important to protect your data, your identity, your PC. If you purchase and properly install Grisoft's AVG 7.5 Internet Security Suite, you will have taken major steps toward that goal.
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R.L. Kuper, Inc. - Management Consulting
The Kuper Report
http://TheKuperReport.com
If you are looking for an all-in-one desktop software solution for preventing viruses, spyware, spam, and other security issues, and at a very reasonable price, Grisoft's AVG 7.5 Internet Security Suite may be the product for you.
The product contains the following:
The product was installed on a PC running Windows XP and wizards made it very easy to install and set up. As with the installation of any new software, it is always wise to choose the check-for-updates option after the product has fully installed (usually after a reboot).
Once the suite is up and running, the entire suite can automatically check for and install updates for whichever module has an update. You want to stay current so make sure this is your setting.
The software firewall is your second line of defense, right after a hardware firewall, to prevent bad things to get onto your PC from connecting to the internet, and to prevent bad people from getting remote access to your PC.
The antivirus program updates daily or as frequently as new viruses are identified. No viruses have gotten through and so it has found none when scanning my outgoing email. You can set the antivirus program to do regularly scheduled scans of your PC.
Because my setup is such that no email actually gets onto my PC, I was unable to test the antispam feature, but others who use this product have told me that it works very well.
There is a test center application that allows quick scans to be accomplished for individual problems or for an individual user. There is also an integrated virus encyclopedia.
If I have any gripes it is with the antispyware module, and I have this gripe with all of the antispyware products on the market today. All antispyware products on the market today incorrectly flag legitimate tracking cookies that if blocked prevent legitimate income from being earned or business leads tracked. I've previously written about this in the article "Not All Cookies Are Bad". That means that the user would somehow need to know to not accept the recommendation to block certain cookies. I truly wish all the antispyware makers would fix this problem. Having made my point about this oversight in all the antispyware products on the market, the AVG antispyware module does an otherwise excellent job of finding and removing spyware that may be on your PC. You can schedule antispyware scans to run at regularly scheduled times.
The suite is competitively priced. You can buy the product with a 2-year subscription for updates for only $69.95 for a single user copy, and the price gets even better if you have multiple PCs.
Before installing and testing the suite, I previously tested Grisoft's free antivirus product, and that worked as well as the one that comes with this suite.
The bottom line. As pointed out in my article "So how secure is your PC?", it is important to protect your data, your identity, your PC. If you purchase and properly install Grisoft's AVG 7.5 Internet Security Suite, you will have taken major steps toward that goal.
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