Best antivirus software in 2010

We tested for this review ten antivirus aplications to find which is the best antivirus software in 2010. We not really expected at these results in antivirus ranking because a large part of these applications are very well known branded softwares.

The criteria used to find the best antivirus of 2010 are:

- effectiveness of the software – we tested the level of detection effectiveness for these antiviruses, for the same virus signatures, in similar environments. In the same time we compare side-by-side these applications and we verified our results with detection effectiveness results made by independent laboratories;

- type of protection – many modern antivirus softwares includes in their protection package more just one simple antivirus. Most of all protection software producers made their antivirus products with more just one a type of security in mind. For example, an usual antivirus software is able to detect usual viruses, Trojans infiltrations, spyware and the worms. However, a lot of antivirus producers are able to offer more security in their package: email protection, anti-keylogger detection and rootkits defense.

- the required level of computer skills to install and configure the software – this is a very important aspect. Many users buy expensive antivirus packages but don’t know almost anything about the virus protection. If the package is difficult to install and configure, the user will be disappointed by the selected antivirus.

- ease of use – in antivirus industry it’s necessary to have a easy to use and friendly software if you want to have good results on long term. If a software is easy to use, will be choose by other clients.

- included features – it’s very important that a good antivirus to have many features, well integrated and used to offer a high level of protection. Many modern antiviruses it has included all the security features, necessary to offer a high level of computer protection;

- frequency of updates – to be effective against new viruses it’s a must to have your antivirus software often updated. Many producers offer in their products a configurable update module. However a lot of antiviruses tested for this review doesn’t have good time of update and this is not a very good if you want best antivirus protection;

- removal effectiveness – we tested the capacity of these applications to remove different types of viruses, which infects Windows partition and other computer’s zones.

- online support – one of the most important thing for a software producer is the support offered to the clients. Best antivirus producers offer large documentations about their protection software and have good online support for every question about their products.

To find which is the best antivirus software in 2010 we combined all these characteristics to offer a good and real result and to provide you the real result. Our top ten with best ranking antiviruses software in 2010 is the next one:

1. Kaspersky Antivirus 2010;

2. BitDefender Antivirus 2010;

3. Norton Antivirus;

4.  ESET NOD32 Antivirus 2010;

5. Webroot Antivirus with SpySweeper;

6. AVG Antivirus;

7. GData Antivirus

8. Avira Antivirus;

9. FSecure Antivirus;

10. TrendMicro 2009 Antivirus;

You can download the packages and test in trial versions all these products, from their official websites pages, to find which is the best antivirus for your computer protection and security. Few of these softwares are free and we are very happy that in a top dedicated to the best 10 antivirus, we have included these free applications. All presented software runs without problems on the new Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System.