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Grisoft AVG 7.5 Anti-Virus Professional

77

Good

  • Pros
  • Low renewal cost
  • Low system impact
  • Cons
  • Poor proactive detection
Performance
Renewal cost, per year$15 (3/31/07)
Ease of useGood
Malware detection rate: Malware detection tests used AV-Test.org's collection of 884,164 malware samples.91%
File viruses84%
Macro viruses100%
Script viruses79%
Polymorphic viruses87%
ActiveX controls100%
Back doors93%
Bots/zombies95%
Trojan horses91%
Adware97%
Dialers99%
Number of false positives (out of 20,000 harmless files)1
Heuristic detection (one-month-old signatures)34%
Heuristic detection (two-month-old signatures)26%
Detection rate of malware within archived files26%
Detection rate of existing infections (10 infections)100%
Disinfection rate (files, Hosts changes, Registry items)82%
Average time (in hours) to deliver signatures for new malware6 to 8
Right-click manual scans in Windows Explorer?Yes
E-mail protocols scannedPOP3, SMTP
Scan Web traffic?No
Scan speed with standard settings, in seconds113
With Firefox 25%
With Adobe Photoshop CS25%
With Microsoft Office 20032%
Daily support hours0
Saturday support hours0
Sunday support hours0
Free phone supportNo
Toll-free phone numberNo
Cost of phone supportn/a
Live chat support?No
E-mail support?Yes

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