Linklist — July 27, 2007

• Add these to your web devel­op­ment toolkit — Two Tools for Pol­ish­ing Your Web Pages
• Con­sid­er­ing the busi­ness uses of Twit­ter? — A white paper by Jim Horton
• PC World’s July Anti-vir­us soft­ware roundup:

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Grisoft AVG 7.5 Anti-Vir­us Pro­fes­sion­al Edi­tion7/16/2007

The least-expens­ive pro­gram we tested, AVG has aver­age over­all mal­ware detec­tion, the worst pro­act­ive pro­tec­tion, and a clunky inter­face. PC World.ca rat­ing: 77, Good

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Trend Micro Anti­Vir­us plus Anti­Spy­ware 2007

7/16/2007

Poor per­form­ance at detect­ing mali­cious soft­ware (over­all and pro­act­ive) res­ul­ted in a bot­tom-of-the-bar­rel rank­ing. PCWorld.ca rat­ing: 71, Good

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Alwil Avast 4 Pro­fes­sion­al Edition

7/16/2007

This pro­gram offers decent over­all mal­ware detec­tion, but poor pro­act­ive pro­tec­tion and an awk­ward design. It also lacks U.S. phone sup­port. PC World.ca rat­ing: 79, Good

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Panda Anti­vir­us 2007

7/12/2007

This well-priced option provides good pro­act­ive pro­tec­tion, aver­age over­all mal­ware detec­tion, and a poor dis­in­fec­tion rate. PCWorld.ca rat­ing: 79, Good.

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Eset NOD32


7/11/2007

NOD32 has the best pro­act­ive pro­tec­tion by far, but its over­all mal­ware detec­tion is second-tier, and it has an overly tech­nic­al inter­face. PCWorld.ca rat­ing: 84, very good.

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Norton Anti­Vir­us 2007


7/10/2007

Symantec’s sol­id pro­gram wins top marks for anti­vir­us detec­tion and cleanup, but its renew­al and sup­port costs are high. PCWorld.ca rat­ing: 84, Very Good

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Bit­De­fend­er Anti­vir­us v10


7/10/2007

Bit­De­fend­er has excel­lent mal­ware detec­tion and a good price, but it adds a notice­able (though not show-stop­ping) sys­tem slow­down. PCWorld.ca rat­ing: 84, Very Good

Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Kasper­sky Anti-Vir­us 6.0


7/9/2007

This effect­ive but expens­ive pro­gram has sol­id mal­ware detec­tion and the fast­est out­break-response time among cur­rently tested com­pet­it­ors. PCWorld.ca rat­ing: 85, Very Good

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