They will get past your security software. Know your enemy and protect yourself.

A latency monitor that can generate handy graphs about your broadband connection.

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

A mixed bag of features, with some fundamentally flawed defaults and too many opaque alerts.

Still the best choice for speed and security, but most new additions are eye candy.

Excellent value for money, but a few performance glitches.

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

If you don’t fancy giving the Registry a health check yourself, plenty of tools will clean it up for you.

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If you find yourself at the economy end of the Vista ladder, third-party downloads can give you some Ultimate power

Take control of your PC with some handy utilities to keep applications in check.

A fairly straightforward site focused on savings, but it functions well.

We take mail filtering for granted today, but it was big news back in 1991. Pegasus was the first to do it and, 12 years later, its long history ensures lots of development time and a strong community of helpful users. The latest release is a major upgrade, and filtering is still at the forefront.

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

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