This product receives superior scores in performance and has very good South African support.

With good heuristics VirusScan provides solid protection.

This program had the quickest response to new malware outbreaks. It is also light on computer resources and everything seems to be configurable.

The F-Secure heuristic scanner is considered by many to be one the best and most complete. F-Secure is also very good at releasing updated news on malware outbreaks.

Scans only files and processes at risk using Norton Insight. It also uses very little system resources and has free support. The new interface looks great.

The software has a clean appearance and very few options making it very easy to navigate.

AntiVir performed one of the best in the free programs, although it failed to clean several old macro viruses.

Scan speed was slow but has a advanced and standard interface option.

Although the best interface of all reviewed products, Trend Micro does lack .

Interface has improved over the years and AVG free software is fast becoming the most popular free antivirus .