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PCMAG said:Almost all of the major security vendors have released their 2012 security suites already, counting both those with "2012" in the name and those released since the first 2012 edition appeared. Their prices range from under $40 to almost $90, but the most expensive aren't necessarily the most effective. Even though quite a few haven't been updated yet, a couple of clear winners have emerged—though the late releases could surprise me.
For the moment, however, Norton Internet Security 2012 ($69.99 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars) excels in all areas, with no component rating less than four stars. Even in areas like spam filtering and parental control, weak points for many suites, Norton does a great job. And its smart firewall protects against a wide variety of attacks.
Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete ($79.95 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars) is this season's breakout success. Totally rewritten, its core components occupy less than 600KB of disk space. In my testing Webroot achieved a first-ever perfect score for malware blocking. And its online backup and file synchronization goes way beyond almost all of the competition. Webroot and Norton currently share the Editors' Choice honor for security suites.
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As you can see on the above table , NIS 2012 and Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete got the Editor Choice award.
What's really hard to understand is how McAfee Total Protection 2012 manage to get 4 stars while the suites from Kaspersky , F-Secure , VIPRE , G-DATA , ESET only managed to get 3 stars or less...
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