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Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Consumer Reports rates malware tools
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Consumer Reports magazine, in its September print edition, has a really great section on fighting computer viruses, adware, and malware in general.
You’ll be able to read many of the reports free on the magazine’s Web site here. However, the actual ratings of the products are restricted to subscribers.
Since I do subscribe I can tell you that the highest rated anti-virus software came from BitDefender and Zone Labs. When it came to spyware, the champions were F-Secure and Webroot. Trend Micro and Allume Systems were at the top for anti-spam.
I’ve included clickable links for all these companies. Keep in mind that most of these are commercial for-pay products. Also remember that many of these companies offer an array of products and that the recommendations by Consumer Reports were for the specific product, for instance an anti-virus program, not the entire product line.
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