How do you review a virus checker? I don�t have a virus, I didn�t get a virus whilst I used this product. However virus checkers are so much more than just  that these days. They usually also incorporate an e-mail scanner and a firewall and various other tid-bits that do many and various things.

So the question is how user friendly is it? How well does it seem to do the job that it�s been asked to do? Are there any obvious deficiencies?  

Well yes.

I can only talk about my issues with AVG so here they are. It changed all my e-mail settings, except it didn�t tell me it was going to do that and it meant I�ve been using webmail for the last two weeks.

Other than that it seems fine. Oh except it leads you astray with its control panel because it offers a �Performance tune-up� so I clicked it and all the usual stuff, came up, yes my registry is bloated, yes I�d love someone to come and clean it out. And then it told me that I had to pay more money for AVG to do that and I politely declined. Here�s an idea don�t put a service I don�t have on the control panel where all the services I do have are run from. K? If I paid for this product I then expect everything I see to be functional and I really don�t expect to be lured into trying a new product that lulls me into a false sense of security by seeming to work and then asking for my credit card.

I have mostly gotten my e-mail back and working and to be fair I did get a trial PC-tuneup for 24 hours for nothing and I suppose that $51.99 is a reasonable price for a registry cleaner. I am not however convinced that my media streaming is faster since I installed AVG or that my games now have any less lag.

So there we are, it�s a virus scanner and firewall and it seems to work and if my Outlook worked and all the buttons on the control panel were functional it would probably be getting quite a high score.

Score: 5/10