

Or, we could run a deep scan that checked out absolutely every file on our laptop.

Any time we felt just a bit nervous, we could run a Smart Scan, which took just seconds to search for basic issues like viruses, malware, and bad browser add-ons. But it also offered the option for on-demand scanning. We examined both its free and Internet Security versions, we studied its privacy policy in-depth, and we considered what programs it offers for other platforms.ĪVG includes on-access scanning, which means as soon as we opened the program it began scanning and continued to scan in the background as long as it was open.

We ran AVG through its paces on our 2020 Lenovo Thinkpad to see just what it could do.
