AVG blocked access to 56% of the URLs and eliminated another 37% at the download stage, for a total of 93% protection. That’s a decent score, but nearly half the competing antivirus apps did better.

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AVG blocked access to 56% of the URLs and eliminated another 37% at the download stage, for a total of 93% protection. That’s a decent score, but nearly half the competing antivirus apps did better.