AVG Professional Edition has many features that make it the best value antivirus protection available.

• 2 year license instead of the usual 1 year license
• Antivirus
  The powerful AVG Resident Shield provides maximum protection by scanning every file opened, executed, or saved. It will also prevent the opening or executing of infected files.
• The AVG Personal E-mail Scanner checks every e-mail sent or received, providing much needed protection from e-mail borne threats. AVG supports all leading e-mail clients including MS Outlook, The bat!, Eudora and all other SMTP/POP3 based email clients such as Outlook Express. Encrypted connections using SSL are also supported.
• AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall can scan attachments of instant message services (like ICQ, MSN Messenger) for viruses and other threats.
• AVG provides support for the detection of "potentially unwanted programs".
• AVG’s scanning engine uses a unique combination of heuristic analysis and generic detection methods to detect all known viruses.
• Automatically attempts to heal/remove infected files and other threats such as trojans, worms, and java applets. Removed files are quarantined in the AVG Virus Vault.
• Standard configuration user interface allows simple operation for most users. More advanced users can use an advanced user interface to access all available settings.
• The AVG Resident Shield can include/exclude files from scanning based on individual file extensions.
• Firewall
  Provides full protection to ensure that your personal data remains private and safe
• Hides your PC on the Internet, providing protection from hackers.
• Access rules help prevent access from hackers, trojans, and worms.
• The AVG Configuration Wizard quickly defines default access rules for most popular software, making it even easier for users to set up.
• Flexible access rules allow the user to specify if traffic should be always allowed / blocked or if the user should be prompted to decide. Access rules can be applied to individual programs, so the user can give more access to trusted programs whilst strictly controlling access for other software.
• Simple creation of new access rules for new programs. As the program attempts to connect for the first time, AVG Firewall will prompt the users to accept or block access. From this selection a new permanent connection rule can be created.
• AVG Firewall supports multi-user logging in Windows XP. When no user is logged in, communication for all applications, that do not have a special rule defined, is blocked to provide maximum security against intrusions.
• The Stop All Traffic feature allows the user to temporarily block all traffic to and from the computer. The Allow Traffic button will resume traffic flow according to the normal operating rules.
• AVG Firewall provides full logging facilities to log all firewall activities.
• Advanced configuration can be set for each rule to provide access to extended settings that allow the user to define special services and network connections for a specific application.