We’ve now come to the end of our Antivirus Comparison Series. To finish everything off we’re going to give each software a rating and a rank….
| Software | Rating | Rank |
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6 |
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7 |
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3 |
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4 |
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2 |
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5 |
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1 |
From all our investigations over the past few weeks we can conclude in our opinion AVG Internet Security is the best software around! We were really pleased and excited to see that Avira and Kaspersky have so much potential and are on the verge of being world class products. Norton 360 and McAfee, for us, were the biggest let downs. The quality of product and service just isn’t as good as you expect. In many cases you’re better off going for a smaller brand or AVG! All software used in the comparisons were the best available home software from the brand at the time of writing.
I think the interesting and most important thing to take from the investigation is that the two biggest household names are rated as last. Consequently this whole survey really asks this question…’do the big name brands always provide the best service and product?’
Want to find out more? Check out the original comparison articles:
- Norton 360 vs AVG Internet Security
- McAfee Total Protection vs AVG Internet Security
- Trend Micro Internet Security Pro vs AVG Internet Security
- Avira Premium Security Suite vs AVG Internet Security
- avast! Professional Edition vs AVG Internet Security
- Kaspersky Internet Security vs AVG Internet Security
So after playing around with the two programs I can conclude that we think AVG Internet Security is better than McAfee Total Protection. It has a wider range of tools and equipment to give an overall better performance. McAfee looks nicer than AVG but we all know looks can be deceiving and AVG turns out to be far easier to use. A huge advantage of AVG is that you can buy it for 1 computer if you only have 1 computer, whereas you dont have the option to do that with McAfee Total Protection. Although the installation of AVG involves you having to make some choices it saves you having to do them in the long run and it helps provide you with an even better performance. Whereas with McAfee you spend ages doing the Automatic installation to find out you still have to configure all the features yourself!!
