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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

How good is your anti-virus software?

The virus.gr site has published results of tests made at the end of August, using 147,184 virus samples. Kaspersky takes the top two slots, since AOL uses Kaspersky, ahead of F-Secure. Bear in mind that some programs score badly because they are not actually virus checkers: Trojan Hunter, for example.

You might wonder why you are paying for Norton when AVG seems to do as good a job, and Avast is better than both. (AVG has better heuristics, as the lower table shows.)

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