I evaluate antivirus software in two areas. The first is whether it actually stops your computer from getting a real virus, not some fake virus like the magazines test with, but a real virus. The second is the performance hit your computer takes running it. One of the main side effects of todays viruses is that they slow down your computer, so if you going to run a crappy virus scanner that makes your computer run slow from the start, you're not accomplishing much.

Kaspersky has always excelled in the first area and with the release of their version 6 product they have the best Anti-Virus software on the market. We can install their latest offering on your computer for $50.

AOL gave a watered down version of the Kaspersky software away for several months at ActiveVirusShield.com. They switched back to McAfree sometime in July 2007. That is unfortunate, because McAfee is one of the worst, if not the worst scanners on the market. It fails miserably in both detection and performance.