AV-Comparatives Consumer Real-World Protection Test Factsheet Feb-Mar 2026

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Since Norton Power Eraser is officially retired, I’m moving to ESET Online Scanner as my primary alternative. My updated 'SOS' will be ESET + KVRT.

It’ll be interesting to see if Norton’s detection rates fluctuate now that they’ve lost the crowdsourced telemetry from the thousands of independent 'malware hunters' who used NPE has a second opinion scanner.
 
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F-Secure is simple to use & can't be faffed about with for others PC's you may attend if you chose a 3rd part AV - Out of interest I was just looking on the Panda website, its inexpensive & renews at the same price, that itself is very unusual as many start off at perhaps £39 UK Pounds for first year & renews at £95 UK Pounds as McAfee does for example, for Internet Security, one of my gripes is inflated renewal costs on software etc.
 
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Panda is killing the competition as usual, it's not even close 🐼
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