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Best Product Reviews
These are the best reviews of personal firewall, wireless routers,
anti-spyware, Internet security suites, anti-virus, spam stoppers, and
parental controls / content filters that we have been
able to find online.
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Personal Firewalls
(for more
reviews, see our Firewall
page)
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Proactive Security Challenge,
Matousec, April 23, 2009 -- Comodo, Tall Emu Online Armor,
and Outpost Security Suite Pro 2009 are rated excellent.
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Firewalls,
Consumer Search, January 2008, a summary of 27 reviews of 29
products -- Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0, Online Armor Personal Firewall
v2, and Outpost Firewall Pro 6.0.
Wireless Routers
(for more
reviews, see our
Wireless
page)
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Cheap
Wireless Routers, Oliver Rist, PC Magazine, June 18, 2008 --
Linksys, Netgear, SMC & Trendnet
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Dual-Band Routers, Oliver Rist, PC Magazine,
June 3, 2008 -- Apple, D-Link, Linksys & Netgear
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Wireless Router Reviews,
Consumer Search, updated June 2008, a summary of 26 reviews of 37
products -- D-Link DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router,
ConsumerSearch.com, best wireless router overall, TRENDnet
TEW-631BRP 300Mbps Wireless N-Draft Router -- Best value wireless
router, Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G Broadband Router with
SpeedBooster -- Best basic router
- New
802.11n Routers: The Best Wi-Fi Yet, Becky Waring & Elliott
Kirschling, PC World, April 29, 2008 -- Apple,
Belkin, D-Link, Linksys, Netgear
- Cheap Draft 802.11n Router Roundup, Tim Higgins,
SmallNetBuilder,
April 11, 2008 -- Belkin, D-Link, Linksys & Trendnet
Anti-Spyware
(for more reviews,
see our
Anti-Spyware
page)
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CNET Top 10 Antispyware Apps, Robert Vamosi, CNet,
March 8, 2008 -- Sunbelt CounterSpy v2 editor's choice
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Nine Ways to Wipe Out Spyware, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine,
February 5, 2008 -- Ad-Aware 2007 Pro, CounterSpy V2, GarbageClean
3.0, Spyware Doctor with Antivirus 5.5 [editor's choice], Spyware
Terminator 2.0, STOPZilla 5.0, SUPERAntiSpyware, SpyEraser 2,
Webroot Antivirus with AntiSpyware and Firewall.
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Anti-Spyware Reviews, Consumer Search, January 2008,
comprehensive summary of 17 reviews for 45 products -- Webroot
Software Spy Sweeper...
Security Suites
(for more
reviews, see our Security Suites page)
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Top Internet Security Suites: Paying for Protection, Erik
Larkin, PC World, January 22, 2009 -- Norton, BitDefender, Panda,
McAfee, Avira, Kaspersky, F-Secure, Webroot & Trend Micro
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The Best Security Suites for 2009, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine,
October 29, 2008 (updated February 2, 2009) -- BitDefender, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Norton
(editor's choice), Panda, Trend Micro, Webroot, ZoneAlarm, Computer
Associates (CA) & Comodo.
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Bake-Off: Desktop
Security Suites, Fahmida Rashid, CRN, August
22, 2008 -- McAfee, Norton 2009 beta, Kaspersky 2009, Trend Micro,
and CA 2007 [?]
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Internet Security Software Reviews,
Consumer Search, January 2008, summary of 24 reviews of 35 products
-- BitDefender, Norton & Panda
Anti-Virus
(for more reviews, see
our
Anti-Virus page)
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Antivirus Software Roundup -- Protect Your PC From Guys Like This!
Paul Lilly, Maximum PC, December 22, 2008. Note:
Actually reviews Internet security suites from Antivir, Avast! AVG
free & paid, ESET, F-Protect, Kaspersky, McAfee, PC Tools &
Symantec.
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Finding A Virus Scanner That Works, Andy Greenberg,
Forbes, December 11, 2008
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AV-Test release
latest results, Major test of suite products completed, Virus
Bulletin, September 2, 2008 -- Top products include AntiVir, AVK
2009, F-Secure 2009, Norton 2009 and Sophos.
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AV Still Weak on Rootkit Detection, Fixing Infections, Kelly
Higgins, Dark Reading, March 12, 2008 and
equivalent letter grades from Sunbelt Software. By our count,
none of the products got straight A's on all eight tests; only four out of thirty got all A's
& B's; ten got a mix of A's, B's & C's; and sixteen (!!!)
got at least one D or F.
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Antivirus Software Reviews,
Consumer Search, January 2008, comprehensive summary of 30 reviews of
28 products -- Kaspersky, ESET NOD32, AVG Free, Panda & Norton
Spam Stoppers
(for more reviews,
see our Spam Stoppers page)
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3 Free Anti-Spam Programs Reviewed, Joel Durham Jr.,
extremetech,
March 4, 2009 -- SpamBayes, Mailwasher & SPAMfighter
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The Best Ways to Stop Spam, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, April
1, 2008 -- Cloudmark, iHateSpam, SpamExperts, ZoneAlarm Security
Suite
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Spam Filter Reviews,
Consumer Search, January 2008, a summary of 33 reviews of 37
products -- MailWasher Pro, OnlyMyEmail, Cloudmark Desktop, CA
Anti-Spam Plus CA Website Inspector 2008 & POPFile.
Parental Controls & Content Filters
(for more reviews, see our
Kid Safe
page)
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Tools to Keep Kids Safe Online, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine,
March 4, 2008 -- Bsafe Online, iShield 2.0, iShield Plus 2.0,
Kidswatch Parental Computer Control, Net Nanny 5.6 (editor's
choice), NoodleNet, PC Pandora, Safe Chat Universal Messenger with
Parental Controls, Safe Eyes 5.0 (editor's choice), Sentry At Home,
SnoopStick & Webroot Parental Controls.
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Parental Control Software Reviews,
Consumer Search, February 2008, a summary of 25
reviews of 15 products.
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