Picking the best antivirus and internet security software to buy is not an easy task.  Unlike productivity software or games, most of the work of security software is done "behind the scenes" where you can't really tell what it is doing.  And when the time comes for it to do its job and protect you, you won't know until it is too late if you have made the right choice or not.

Unfortunately, antivirus and internet security reviews are not always as useful as they should be when it comes to helping the public make the right buying decisions.  Reviewer opinions and testing methods can vary, meaning that checking a single review will not always give a reliable indication

For each of the products that we rate, we survey reviews and test scores from a wide range of sources and take the weighted average