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• Ease of use, installation and setup

  Exceptional antivirus software is simple to use, regardless of a users computer experience or knowledge of viruses. The software should be easy to install and configure. If you need to use the interface to change settings, it should be intuitive and nonthreatening to beginners. Ideally, most features will be enable/disable toggles with the power to finetune if desired. Antivirus programs should be a breeze to install, making it easy to go from installation to initial scan in just a couple clicks of the mouse.

• Effective at identifying viruses and worms

  The best antivirus products identify infected files quickly through realtime scanning, searching for viruses in a multitude of sources, including email, instant message applications, web browsing, etc. Scanning speed is also important. Slow antivirus software will tend to interfere with your work or gaming, and if its very slow or you are particularly impatient, you might have the tendency to stop or pause the scan, rendering the software useless.

• Effective at cleaning or isolating infected files

  Truly capable antivirus software thoroughly cleans, deletes or quarantines infected files, keeping them from spreading throughout the hard drive or network. Proactive/heuristic testing enables the antivirus software to detect and quarantine code that looks and acts like a virus even before it has been reported. This could be critical in protecting you on a Day Zero attack and spare you from being one of the first casualties.

• Activity reporting and Feature set

  Antivirus programs should give immediate notification of viruses found by realtime scanners and should provide an easy to read report of scan results, including what was found and what was done with infected files. A well rounded feature set allows antivirus software to provide absolute protection. The best programs are those that offer a wide variety of tools, from basic realtime scanning to more advanced heuristic scanning and script blocking.

• Many of today's threats make use of multiple attack mechanisms and use system vulnerabilities to bypass the user and launch code automatically, dramatically reducing the 'lead time' between the appearance of a new threat and it reaching epidemic proportions. There's no question that today's threats are faster than ever before.
  Where it used to take weeks, or even months, for a virus to achieve widespread circulation, today's threats can achieve worldwide distribution in hours - riding on the back of our business-critical email infrastructure and exploiting the increasing number of system vulnerabilities that give them a springboard into the corporate enterprise.
  
  Getting the best antivirus software for your computer will allow you to concentrate on the things you wish to do.
  While you are working on that special project, the software will also be working behind the scenes scanning through the tens of thousands of files on your system, making sure there is no corrupt data or unwanted programs at play There are different reasons why to buy an antivirus software.
  

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  What to Look For in Antivirus Software? All antivirus software is not created as efficiently as others. Like any thing that had been produced in world this products also comes with good, bad and mediocre. You have a number of choices in this aspect.

  You need some special efforts while you look for software. Here at theTop10AntiVirus.com we would suggest the main things are essential to take into account when in the market for antivirus programs.

  Top antivirus software should be easy enough for a computer user to both install and uninstall. The software should effectively seek out and identify virus threats, as well as clean or isolate infected files. your antivirus Product should satisfy all below requirements..

• Latest News for All Threats:

  09/01/2010 12:05 PM

  Monthly Malware Statistics: August 2010 In August, there was a significant increase in exploits of the CVE-2010-2568 vulnerability.

  09/01/2010 12:00 PM

  Spam report: July 2010 The amount of spam detected in mail traffic averaged 82.9% in July 2010. A low of 77.9% was recorded on 20 July with a peak value of 90.1% being reached on 25 and 31 July.

  08/23/2010 09:00 AM

  Information Security Threats in the Second Quarter of 2010 The majority of the biggest malware incidents that took place in the second quarter of 2010 were linked in some way to botnets. New bots were created and existing bots further developed, such as TDSS, an article on which has been published by our virus analysts, and Zbot (ZeuS), which we discuss below.

  08/05/2010 10:10 AM

  TDSS The TDSS rootkit first appeared in 2008. Since then, it has become far more widespread than the notorious rootkit Rustock. The rootkit’s malicious payload and the difficulties it presents for analysis are effectively similar to those of the bootkit.

  07/30/2010 03:36 PM

  Monthly Malware Statistics July 2010 The first Top Twenty list below shows malware, adware and potentially unwanted programs that were detected and neutralized by the on-access scanner when they were accessed for the first time

  07/27/2010 03:38 PM

  Spam in the Second Quarter of 2010 The percentage of spam in mail traffic during the second quarter of 2010 came to 84.4%, a reduction of 0.8 percentage points on the previous quarter. The highest levels of spam were recorded on 18 April and 9 May at 89.8%, while the low for the quarter was 79.2% on 20 April

  07/21/2010 03:08 PM

  Spam report: June 2010 The amount of spam in email traffic decreased by 0.3 percentage points compared to May’s figure and averaged 84.8%

  07/21/2010 07:43 AM

  Mass Defacements: the tools and tricks Websites getting defaced, servers getting turned into nodes in botnets, shell accounts and backdoors being sold on the black market - this is what’s happening on the Internet every day

  07/15/2010 09:00 AM

  Black DDoS Cybercriminals use a variety of bots to conduct DDoS attacks on Internet servers. One of the most popular tools is called Black Energy 2. This malicious program is the subject of this article.

  07/05/2010 01:15 PM

  Monthly Malware Statistics: June 2010 The first ten places on the above list remain virtually unchanged from last month , with the Kido network worm and the Sality virus continuing to occupy the top four places.

  06/25/2010 01:13 PM

  Spam Report: May 2010 The amount of spam detected in mail traffic averaged 85.1% in May 2010. A low of 79.8% was recorded on 31 May with a peak value of 89.8% being reached on 9 May.

  06/21/2010 12:30 PM

  Children and the Internet Currently, more and more children are mastering the art of searching the Internet, a world designed mostly by adults for adults. Very often adults argue about whether to allow children to use the World Wide Web or not.

  06/10/2010 01:28 PM

  Review of the Virus.Win32.Virut.ce Malware Sample This article is dedicated to the polymorphic virus known as Virus.Win32.Virut and to its ‘ce’ variant in particular.

  06/03/2010 12:55 PM

  Monthly Malware Statistics: May 2010 Malicious programs detected on users’ computers

  06/01/2010 12:45 PM

  Information Security Threats in the First Quarter of 2010 This report was compiled on the basis of data obtained and processed using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). KSN is one of the most important innovations in personal products and is currently in the final stages of development.

  05/27/2010 03:24 PM

  Spam evolution: April 2010 The amount of spam detected in mail traffic averaged 83% in April 2010. A low of 79.2% was recorded on 20 April with a peak value of 89.8% being reached on 18 April.

  05/26/2010 09:40 AM

  Spam and the law Spam is illegal in many countries and Russia is certainly no exception. So why then is it mostly left up to the technical experts to try to combat the problem when it could be argued that the legislature should be leading the crusade?

  05/12/2010 03:30 PM

  Spam evolution: January-March 2010 In the first quarter of 2010, the percentage of spam in email traffic averaged 85.2%. This figure coincides with the final result for 2009.

  05/03/2010 12:41 PM

  Monthly Malware Statistics: April 2010 Malicious programs detected on users’ computers

  04/29/2010 12:13 PM

  Crimeware: A new round of confrontation begins… This article provides an analysis of recent developments regarding attacks launched by malicious programs against the clients of financial organizations.