• Performance: Superior • Download price when
• Ease of Use: Very Good reviewed: $50 ($35 renewal)
• Features: Very Good • Malware detection rate: 96%
• Price when ranked: $30 • Proactive detection: 51%
• System slowdown: 10%
Vendor's Website • Ease of use: Superior
Inexpensive product received • False-positive detections: 6
excellent scores in our Check latest prices
performance tests, although its (Last Rated: April 23, 2007)
scan speed was sluggish. Full Review • Test Report
(Last Rated: January 25, 2006)
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2 McAfee VirusScan 2006 2
• Performance: Superior
• Ease of Use: Very Good • Download price when
• Features: Very Good reviewed: $40 ($39 renewal)
• Price when ranked: $40 • Malware detection rate: 96%
• Proactive detection: 49%
Check latest prices • System slowdown: 10%
Relatively good heuristics help • Ease of use: Superior
VirusScan provide solid • False-positive detections: 3
protection. Phone support costs Check latest prices
$3 per minute.
(Last Rated: January 25, 2006) (Last Rated: April 23, 2007)
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3 Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti- 3
• Download price when
• Performance: Superior reviewed: $30 ($22 renewal)
• Ease of Use: Good • Malware detection rate: 96%
• Features: Good • Proactive detection: 61%
• Price when ranked: $40 • System slowdown: 124%
• Ease of use: Superior
Vendor's Web Site • False-positive detections: 14
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to new malware outbreaks. BitDefender has good price,
Interface is clean but not but it's hamstrung by a system
exceptional. slowdown.
(Last Rated: January 25, 2005) (Last Rated: April 23, 2007)
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4 F-Secure Anti-Virus 2006
• Performance: Superior • Download price when
• Ease of Use: Good reviewed: $39 ($27 renewal)
• Features: Good • Malware detection rate: 90%
• Price when ranked: $40 • Proactive detection: 79%
• System slowdown: 5%
Check latest prices • False-positive detections: 6
Solid performer responded Check latest prices
quickly in tests and provides best NOD32 has the best proactive
breaking news on malware protection by far - it has an
outbreaks. overly technical interface.
(Last Rated: January 25, 2006) (Last Rated: April 23, 2007)
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5 Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006
• Performance: Good • Download price when
• Ease of Use: Very Good reviewed: $30 ($30 renewal)
• Features: Very Good • Malware detection rate: 90%
• Price when ranked: $40 • Proactive detection: 56%
• System slowdown: 4%
Check latest prices • Ease of use: Very Good
Veteren utility offers solid threat • False-positive detections: 3
detection and a nice interface. Check latest prices
Phone support costs $30 per This competitively priced
incident. option provides good proactive
(Last Rated: January 26, 2006) protection.
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6 Panda Software Panda Titanium + Antispyware Professional Edition
• Performance: Very Good • Download price when
• Ease of Use: Good reviewed: $40 ($28 renewal)
• Features: Very Good • Malware detection rate: 92%
• Price when ranked: $50 • Proactive detection: 37%
• System slowdown: 4%
Check latest prices • Ease of use: Good
This former Best Buy performed • False-positive detections: 5
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newest nonspyware tests. This program has decent
(Last Rated: January 26, 2006) overall malware detection.
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7 AntiVir Personal Edition Classic 7
• Performance: Good • Download price when
• Ease of Use: Good reviewed: $30 ($15 renewal)
• Features: Fair • Malware detection rate: 91%
• Price when ranked: Free • Proactive detection: 34%
• System slowdown: 2%
Vendor's Website • Ease of use: Good
AntiVir performed the best of the • False-positive detections: 1
free programs, although it failed Vendor's Web Site
to clean several old macro The least-expensive program
viruses. we tested.
(Last Rated: January 25, 2006) (Last Rated: April 23, 2007)
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8 Alwil Software Avast Home
• Performance: Fair • Download price when
• Ease of Use: Very Good reviewed: $40 ($40 renewal)
• Features: Good • Malware detection rate: 82%
• Price when ranked: Free • • System slowdown: 9%
• • False-positive detections: 0
Vendor's Website Check latest prices
Free product has a slick media- Trend Micro's poor
player-style interface that hides performance at detecting
some features. Scan speed was malicious software (overall and
slow in tests. proactive).
(Last Rated: January 25, 2006) (Last Rated: April 23, 2007)
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9 Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security Security 2006
• Performance: Fair
• Ease of Use: Superior
• Features: Good
• Price when ranked: $50
10 Grisoft AVG Free Edition 7.1
• Performance: Fair
• Ease of Use: Fair
• Features: Fair
• Price when ranked: Free
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