AntiVir Personal 8 has great test results for performance and effectiveness ;

AntiVir Personal 8 is expensive and lacks security and utility features found in comparable products ;

AntiVir Personal 8 provides more than adequate malicious-software protection, but for the price, we expected more features and polish.

CA Internet Security Suite 2009 has a cool Getting Started tutorial and good technical support options ;

Slow and sluggish ; poor user interface ; antiphishing feature is inadequate ;

CA Internet Security Suite 2009 has made some modest gains over its previous efforts, but overall it lags behind its security suite competition in speed and effectiveness.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 includes a fast malicious software engine, Secunia vulnerability database, and built-in system restore capabilities ;

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 results messages were unclear, the installation could have been a lot smoother, it leaves behind registry file after uninstall, and it needs more security tools to justify the price ;

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 provides adequate protection, but the program itself could use some work in telling the user what's going on.

Norton Antivirus 2009 has a leaner footprint, improved speed, white listing, and other technologies to mark clean files as trusted, and free technical support.

Despite its free telephone support, Norton Antivirus 2009 lacks adequate online technical support and, intentional or not, it drives users to its paid technical support services.

Norton Antivirus 2009 hits all the right security notes, and its superior protection technologies might even win back some jaded anti-Symantec folks, though for some, technical support may continue to frustrate.

F-Secure Internet Security 2009 uses multiple antivirus engines ; includes a disk utility feature ; and has an online tutorial ;

F-Secure Internet Security 2009 costs more than the competition ; hides its disk utility feature ; has a noisy firewall ; and suffers from some uneven system performance and antimalware effectiveness in third-party testing ;

While offering roughly the same features and performance as its competition, F-Secure Internet Security 2009 is about $20 too expensive.