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by Anonymous User on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 10:36:44 AM PDT

I'd agree with you when it comes to the companies ranked tops in sales (McAfee and Symantec); it's ironic that they have the highest sales, and yet the poorest performance. Symantec hasn't had a good home AV product since around 2004, and it's been longer for McAfee.

However, there are good antivirus solutions out there, they are just lesser known. Some, like Avast! Antivirus and AVG are actually free, but there are even better options such as eSet NOD32, F-Secure, Sophos, etc. that have much lower resource usage, and excellent detection rates. The key is to actually shop around. Most consumers just buy the product that has the most boxes on the shelf, or what the salesperson tells them to, without doing any homework on their own.

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