AVG offers a free home user edition with free updates for the life of the product and that has made it popular with a lot of home PC users looking for a cheap anti-virus solution.

Excellent support, but a confusing user interface and disappointing firewall let AVG down

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

With the free products on our new cover DVD, you need never buy software again. So why do we still keep paying?

A competent suite delivering good value for money, but it offers only average spyware and spam protection

Currently only available to OEMs, although it should be released later to the consumer market, Seagate’s Momentus hard drive upgrade kit is designed to boost the common bottleneck issue of hard drive performance in notebooks, tablet PCs, digital audio players and blade servers.

Feature-packed and good value, but it’s slow, has too many pop-ups and a less-than-perfect firewall.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

A free package that scores highly, beating almost all its big-name competition. It’s just a shame it’s such a nag

It's always a bonus to uncover a shortcut or program enhancement, and here we bring you 100 tips and tricks that we hope will make your computing experience quicker, simpler or more rewarding. Security tips.

Kaspersky's first integrated security suite relies too much on the anti-virus component.

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

David Moss tackles Vista queries, as well as dealing with floating bars and annoying pop-up reminders.