Best anti - virus 2010

Definitive Best Antivirus 1, members have voted 1. Your Choice? Barney T. Administrators Posted January 1, Posted January 1, Happy Voting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Recommended Posts.

My vote goes to Security Essentials. I can't see it on the list, though. Author Administrators. Phantom Helix Posted January 1, Microsoft Security Essentials. Inertia Posted January 1, My Vote goes to Security Essentials too, light running, good protection, and free. Norton Markvnl Posted January 1, MightyJordan Posted January 1, Lee G.

Veteran Posted January 1, I voted for NOD Microsoft Security Essentials is a close second for me, though. JunkMail Posted January 1, Spartan Erik Posted January 1, Spork Posted January 1, Antivir for me. NOD32; same as last poll.

I've only had Norton and AVG 8, so my vote is solely based on my experience between the two. Going with AVG. Posted January 1, edited. Edited January 1, by alpha2beta. Lee Posted January 1, For we reviewed ten paid antivirus solutions — today we break the reviews down and show you which one is the best. The following antivirus products are participating in this review; all are paid-for applications.

For free antivirus products, check out our Free Antivirus Buyers Guide. Pro-activeness: Webroot, Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and ESET are the stand-outs in Pro-activeness; they successfully detected and blocked the virus files before I initiated the download.

Panda and Norton also detected all of the files as threats immediately but did allow them to be downloaded. The files were quarantined and thus inaccessible but should have been removed automatically. Trend Micro and PCTools let all of the files through without warnings; they were only detected after a full system scan. Virus Removal: All of the antivirus solutions received a full score in the Virus Removal section since they were all able to remove the virus files.

Install Process: Norton is the only product in this roundup that advertises a quick install and it delivers; the install takes one click and less than one minute.

All of the other solutions more or less required the same number of clicks to install. The install process rating also takes into account the size of the installer file.

Not everyone has a fast Internet and the size of the installer file can make a difference. PCTools received an additional point off since it wanted to install a third-party toolbar with the software. Interface: All of the interfaces were generally pleasing and I would describe none as hard to use. However, Bitdefender takes top honors; it has hands-down the best approach to user interfaces I have seen. The interface can be dynamically switched between beginner, intermediate, and advanced types; all fit the user type extremely well.

Clearly a lot of development work went into the interface. I docked a point from CA Anti-Virus since its interface is a blatant upsell to the more expensive Internet Security suite; only some of the functions are enabled on the basic antivirus suite.

Webroot received an additional point off because the test system actually felt a bit slower with it installed, which I did not see from other antivirus suites. Bitdefender and PCTools showed the largest performance decreases to the tune of 12 and 15 percent, respectively.