The Best Antivirus?

Having online internet connection 24/7 is really an exciting experience. What's not exciting is dealing with viruses, spywares, adwares, trojan and everything that goes with it. That is why antivirus is really important as a defensive tools for your computer. A computer with no antivirus and online internet connection can be affected by viruses in just several minutes. So having antivirus protection is a must. But with so many antiviruses available, Norton Antivirus, Kaspersky, NOD32, Antivir, McAfee to a name a few, how will you choose the best antivirus for your computer? Ok, let me give you some advices on that according to my experience.

First, this review is based on my personal experiences in combating viruses in my internet cafe. Latter I will give some comparisons based on testing done by AV-Comparatives.org. When I first setting up my internet cafe, I had little time to do research in choosing the best antivirus to use in computer clients. I had experiences in using Norton Antivirus, I think that it is easy to use, has a good online support and updated regularly. So, I chose Norton Internet Security to defend my computer. As time went by, it proved that I was wrong because lots of viruses could not be detected by Norton, such as amvo.exe, svchosts.exe. Other antiviruses like Kaspersky, AVG can detect and remove such viruses. So then I uninstalled all Norton antiviruses and replaced it with AVG from Grisoft. To help AVG against spyware I also installed AVG AntiSpyware which is a free software. There you have it, my conclusion is that although Norton has a really good name for an antivirus as it is one of the oldest antivirus it lacks the ability to detect malicious file which could be a new virus. But you could disagree with me, as this is really subjective.

Now to make my review a little more sophisticated, I have done some researching on the internet using Google. I entered the keywords "antivirus+comparison" and I stumbled across this website, AV-Comparatives.org. According to the result test, Kasperksy and NOD32 have the highest scores. For the testing methodology you can find it here. In there you can read information regarding the testing methodology, sorting procedure, virus lab security, conditions for participations and frequently asked questions. Reading the test result I am now again confused to choose my antivirus. I am now trying Kaspersky on my server and AVG on all clients. So far so good, but I have a plan to also give NOD32 a try. Let's see how it goes.