avg.com
Mostly blocked
13 of the 14 URLs we have a verdict for under avg.com are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 831 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-02-26, the most recent on 2026-07-14.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://avg.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://avg.comBlockedhttp://www.avg.comas of 2025Blockedhttps://www.avg.comas of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (10)
http://free.avg.comBlockedhttp://search.avg.comBlockedhttp://isearch.avg.comas of 2026Blockedhttp://static.avg.com/favicon.icoBlockedhttp://www.avg.com/ww-en/homepageas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.avg.com/ko-kr/homepageBlockedhttps://www.avg.com/en-gb/secure-vpnas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.avg.com/free-antivirus-downloadBlockedhttp://isearch.avg.com/search?q=%E6%B3%95%E8%BD%AE%E5%A4%A7%E6%B3%95as of 2026Blockedhttp://isearch.avg.com/search?q=%E6%B3%95%E8%BC%AA%E5%A4%A7%E6%B3%95BlockedAbout avg.com and the Great Firewall
13 of the 14 URLs we have a verdict for under avg.com are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 831 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-02-26, the most recent on 2026-07-14.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://avg.com is intermittent, https://avg.com is blocked. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks avg.com. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
Each URL's status is its verdict over the last 90 days, the same one its own page headlines.