{"id":31749,"date":"2012-12-23T18:16:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=31749"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:40:01","slug":"comparison-free-antivirus-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/comparison-free-antivirus-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison: Free Antivirus suites 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Which free antivirus suite is the best?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We take this question very seriously at Softonic and extensively test and rate security software. This year we have compiled a list of the six best Anti Virus suites – Panda Cloud<\/strong><\/a>, Avira Personal<\/strong><\/a>, AVG Free<\/strong><\/a>, Ad-Aware Free<\/strong><\/a>, avast! Free<\/strong><\/a> and Microsoft Security Essentials<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the video below I explain our ranking, and the winner of Best Antivirus of 2012<\/strong>. Each of these is an excellent product, and they all have advantages and disadvantages, but our testing methodology does allow us to judge which is the best!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a table explaining how each antivirus suite performed, and how we weight our final score.<\/p>\n

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*Panda Cloud’s low score for performance was based on only one month of testing, where as the other apps all benefited from 6 months of performance analysis. We will update our results once more data has been obtained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which free antivirus suite is the best? We take this question very seriously at Softonic and extensively test and rate security software. This year we have compiled a list of the six best Anti Virus suites – Panda Cloud, Avira Personal, AVG Free, Ad-Aware Free, avast! Free and Microsoft Security Essentials. In the video below … Continue reading “Comparison: Free Antivirus suites 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-31749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333494,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31749\/revisions\/333494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31749"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=31749"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=31749"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=31749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}