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"Suites" doesn't apply here.

A software suite is one that covers more than one perspective. Typical security suites include AV + Antispyware + Firewall + SpamFilter (etc). Only one item in this article covers more than one (MSSE) and it's only because it now envelops Windows Defender.

Secondly, to recommend ClamWin for any sort of non-poweruser is irresponsible as there's no real-time protection (which you did state but the average Joe doesn't understand the implications of that).

By HousecallsNiagara on Thursday Dec 10

Yes' but are they any good

It's nice to see some of the free AV packages brought to our attention, however it would be nice to see some performance results so we can see how good they actually are at doing their job, and how they stack up against the packages you have to pay for (in terms of protection).

By Cooperman on Friday Dec 11

Avira for me

I moved from Kaspersky to Avira due to an odd bug with a slowly expanding the control panel menu. I got the premium for free by doing an eMusic trial, very happy with it.

By Ip5_e9c608009d6 on Tuesday Dec 15

Mistitled Article

This article should perhaps have been called "Five free security software suites for a Microsoft operating System" as none of these is necessary with a Linux alternative.

By 6tricky9 on Tuesday Dec 15

Interface

How is Avast's GUI "unique" if it's similar to Winamp? Unique means there is nothing similar.

By RJD123 on Wednesday Dec 16

MSSE

Microsoft Security Essentials is a very good antivirus, but it is not so transparent to the system, in some cases MSSE uses a lot o CPU processing, I could observe that with application that creates a lot o temporary files (tmp), understand Internet Explorer, specialty the IE Feeds Features. A workaround is preventing scanning of TMP files or IE Process, which are not recommend.

By alexandrejds on Thursday Jan 28

"Suites" doesn't apply here.

I moved from Kaspersky to Avira due to an odd bug with a slowly expanding the control panel menu. I got the premium for free by doing an eMusic trial, very happy with it.

By PetreTerror on Thursday Oct 7

"Suites" doesn't apply here.

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