Best Virus Protection

[theDragonsDen]

A recent test studied the effects of 58 anti-virus programs to 147,000 viruses.
Top ten ranked are as follows

1. Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 - 99.62%
2. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 - 99.62%
3. F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 - 96.86%
4. BitDefender Professional version 9 - 96.63%
5. CyberScrub version 1.0 - 95.98%
6. eScan version 8.0.671.1 - 95.82%
7. BitDefender freeware version 8.0.202 - 95.57%
8. BullGuard version 6.1 - 95.57%
9. AntiVir Premium version 7.01.01.02 - 95.45%
10. Nod32 version 2.51.30 - 95.14%

Upsetting for me because I have Norton (ranked 22 with 83.18%)

See the whole list here:
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=82
or read more about Kaspersky
http://usa.kaspersky.com/products/anti-virus.php

[BOoBOo]

I have norton also and i went through your list twice thinking maybe i missed it ..lol..how accurate is the study. I have never heard of Kaspersky in my life. Better not be a marketing thing where the research was paid in advance. I have norton, zonealarm firewall, spybot search and destroy. So far things are running fine for me. **crossing fingers**

[N.U.S.C]

Have tried most of them in the list and settled on ZoneAlarm Internet Suite.

But the memory usage was crazy and scanning was slow.

Now have switched to AVG AV+Firewall and AVG Anti-Spyware.

Small memory footprint, reasonable scanning speed and has caught a couple of thing ZA missed.

Best of all, you can get them free.

[Ryan56]

i have used all of them but the only one that does its job well is Kaspersky it also doesn't use a lot of memory as the others do

[rock]

Active Virus shield by Aol, I thought that was a virus along with 95% of everything else Aol makes.

[gojiela]

yes i agree with u. kaspersky is still good now, and almost viruses can be detected but when i used claim AV for my portable disk, its good too but minus is claim AV cannot repair or sweep the virus, but just delete the virus and also your affected data

so, i think to use kaspersky and never change again

[drixie]

Kaspersky is the best anti virus out there. You cant just beat it and they also have great online support forums. If you want to know. search their virus database. when a virus pops up, you must see the corresponding special kaspersky name given to that virus, worm or trojan apart from its general name. Even the other anti virus companies understand and acknowledge kaspersky's leadership and influence in the anti virus industry. You can get free trial versions at www.kaspersky.com

[naives]

I haven't heard lot of names in the list before and i don't think its not accurate enough. But i am using AVG and its free and is providing me a reasonable protection and norton is also very very good i think but the list is not accurate enough. That's what i think

[qejobs]

I earlier used to use norton antivirus 2005 but now use kaspersky antivirus 6 and am satisfied with all its features.Its much lighter on the system,has great update features and better virus protection!

[bizzard]

Me too haven't heard many of the names. I have been using Norton, Antivir, AVG, Clamwin and some others and I settled with Clamwin since Norton is using so much of diskspace and memory. When some Virus's come, AVG behaves different. During scanning, It takes itself as a Virus...! Even though Clamwin don't have realtime scanning, if we take caution in scanning disks, its much good... Moreover, its OpenSource...