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Antivirus Comparison – The Final Ratings and Rankings

July 20th, 2009

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
Norton 360 2 Star2 Star 6
McAfee Total Protection 2009 2 Star2 Star 7
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 3
avast! Antivirus Professional Edition 3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars 4
Avira Premium Internet Security 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 2
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 3 Stars3 Stars3 Stars 5
AVG Internet Security 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 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:

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