I'm at the end of my subscription for Kaspersky Internet Security Suite. After reading tons of reviews, visiting lots of websites that test antivirus and cost/performance ratio I finally selected Bitdefender Internet Security Suite.
After making an online purchase, I had problems downloading it from the DigitalRiver store (this was due to power fluctuations at home that caused the download to be aborted couple of times). Long story short the customer care was very helpful and had my issue resolved in a jiffy.
My evaluation and based on the feedback on the internet led to a tie between Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 & Bitdefender Internet Security 2011. The reason for choosing Bitdefender was simple - cost, extremely affordable for a multi PC / multi year contract.
Now about the antivirus - has all the necessary ICSA, VB100, AV-Comparatives approvals. Tried with the trial version and was happy with it. The only issue I'm facing is that the home network management feature did not work out very well for me. If it had, it would have made my life easier as I can manage the Bitdefender installations on my network. However its not a big deal and I can say I am quite pleased with my purchase.
Now as far as the free antivirus story goes - these are mostly stripped down versions of internet security suites with the same antivirus engine. Bitdefender has a free version too with a on-demand scanner and no real time protection. Avast! is something that has got rave reviews and has an extremely large customer base and good virus detection.
The other antivirus/security suite that I would watch out for is the BullGuard Security Suite which seems to have a lot of promise. It uses the same antivirus engine as Bitdefender but is definitely much lighter, has anti spam engine that integrates very smoothly with Windows Live Mail (the anti spam software is available for free).
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