
This product outdid the G Data software in detecting and removing baddies.

The interface isn’t wonderful, but G Data’s software is our top pick on the strength of its excellent malware detection and removal capabilities, plus the minimal impact it has on PC performance.īest Protection: Bitdefender Internet Security 2012 Our Top Security Suite Picksīest Overall: G Data InternetSecurity 2012 As a result, we put more weight than before on how easy the suites are to use, and on whether they eat up system resources. This year’s roundup was perhaps our most competitive one ever all of the suites in our Top 10 did an excellent all-around job on malware detection, and even the remaining suites performed fairly well.

(For additional details, see “ How We Test Antivirus Software and Security Suites.”) On top of that, AV-Test performs a battery of speed tests to discover which suites will slow a PC to a crawl–and which ones won’t. AV-Test puts security products through a veritable torture test to determine not only which package is the best at detecting threats, but also which one cleans up the mess most effectively. Once again, we partnered with AV-Test, a trusted security software testing company based in Germany.
