Excellent value for money, but a few performance glitches let BitDefender down.

Do the new features of McAfee’s latest addition to its Security Suite stack up for home and business?

PC Authority speaks to Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian king of security software about cutting-edge programming, cyber criminals, pinball, and life in Moscow.

Security features prevent competition and limit innovation, vendor alleges.

Vendor pushed first online software services live.

Quad core considered too much for the average user.

Microsoft lacks credibility in securing its own operating system, security vendor alleges.

Spam! spam! spam! spam! . . . if it had not been for Monty Python nobody would ever have thought there was anything funny about it. With almost 50 percent of the world’s email now junk mail, offering everything from unwanted penis extensions to stockmarket tips, spam has become as big a problem as viruses.

A three-PC licence as standard, superb silent interface and effective security utilities make Norton 360 a tempting buy.

Software as a service model still requires thick client, chipmaker argues.

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

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.

Got a PC riddled with more viruses than a bus driver’s armpit? The PC Authority Labs team has tested 10 leading anti-virus packages to see which ones really deliver the goods and keep your PC clean.

With peerless detection capabilities, this well-conceived package is a joy to use.

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