Identity Protection

The Identity Protection module helps to prevent identity theft and protects your personal information against threats from new and unknown badware.

Traditional security products rely on "signatures" to protect your information against viruses and spyware, and that’s just fine for dealing with existing threats. AVG's identity theft protection goes a step further by adding an extra layer of defence that uses advanced behavioural technology to detect and block new and unknown threats.

Anti-Virus

The antivirus component protects your computer with Windows from viruses, worms and trojans.

Antivirus detects viruses, worms and Trojans as well as executable files or Windows DLL libraries that could be potentially unwanted within your Windows Vista or Windows XP system. Antivirus also holds the internal virus database, and therefore it keeps the maximum level of protection when regularly updated.

Anti-Spyware

The antispyware component protects your computer from spyware, adware and other malicious programs.

Antispyware protects your computer from all kinds of malware (malicious software), e.g. spyware that secretly gathers information and privacy data from your computer, or adware that generates unwanted advertisement on your computer

Firewall

Firewall enforces an access control policy between your computer running Windows and the network by blocking/permitting traffic.

Firewall defines rules that protect your computer from outside attacks, typically from the Internet, and control (allow/forbid) all communication on every network port. If Firewall recognizes and intrusion attempt, it blocks immediately and does not let the intruder access to your PC with Windows.

If you firewall is active, you are protected against hacker attacks and threats from external networks

Anti-Rootkit

This component allows searching for rootkits hidden in your Windows operating system.

Antirootkit scans for dangerous rootkits hidden inside applications, drivers and Windows DLL libraries. A rootkit is usually a collection of malicious software that allows attacker to gain administrator-level rights and access to a computer or possibly whole network in your home or office. Rootkits are generally very well hidden in an operating system which makes them hard to detect or remove by regular security tools.

System Tools

Advanced settings for Advanced Users. Shows information about Windows processes, network connections, automatically starting applications, Internet Explorer extensions and Layered Service Providers on your computer.

LinkScanner

Blocks dangerous websites and checks links on the most popular search engines such Google, Yahoo and MSN and Live for threats.

LinkScaner works with Internet Explorer and Firefox, and consists of two features. AVG Active Surf-Shield and AVG Search-Shield.

AVG Active Surf-Shield

Prevents you from accidently becoming infected by drive-by downloads and other exploits, ensuring the web pages you visit are safe at the only time that really matters – when you are about to click the link.

AVG Search-Shield

Works with Google, Yahoo, MSN and Live search engines to deliver a real-time safety verdict on all search results, including search ads, displaying an icon to show the safety rating for each site.

Web Shield

Checks network traffic for possible threats and disallows dangerous connections.

This component protects you against accidentally downloading infected files or exchanging infected files over instant messaging.

Resident Shield

Works in the background and is scanning all files that you work with.

Scans files as they are copied, opened and saved and if a threat is found, it forbids its activation. It also provides vital protection for the Windows system areas of your computer.