Which Antivirus software is the best?
Posted by admin | Posted in Blog | Posted on 26-11-2009
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The independent testing of software, AV Comparatives has done an exhaustive comparative study of 16 antivirus software for the consumer market.
Results are available in a 27-page report published on the website of the organization.
The programs included in the comparison were:
- Avast Professional Edition 4.8
- AVG Anti-Virus 8.5
- AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0
- BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010
- EScan Anti-Virus 10.0
- Eset NOD32 Antivirus 4.0
- F-Secure AntiVirus 2010
- G DATA AntiVirus 2010
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010
- Kingsoft AntiVirus 9
- McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009
- Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
- Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.10
- Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6
- Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010
- TrustPort Antivirus 2009.
A summary of results is presented in the table below
| Removal of malware | Removal of Levtovers | |
| Avast | average | average |
| AVG | average | average |
| AVIRA | average | average |
| BitDefender | Good | average |
| eScan | Good | Good |
| ESET | average | average |
| F-Secure | Good | average |
| G Data | average | poor |
| Kapersky | Good | average |
| Kingsoft | Poor | poor |
| McAfee | average | average |
| Microsoft | Good | Good |
| Norman | average | poor |
| Sophos | average | average |
| Symantec | Good | Good |
| Trustport | average | average |
This study focused on the ability of programs to remove viruses from infected PCs, not just detection. The study also sought to establish how far the cleaning process removes all traces of the virus, or if it leaves residues of damage to the system. For more details view or download the complete study at http://www.av-comparatives.org/
Michael Gomez
‘The Techy Guy’ Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd
