A recent study was made by AVComparitives to study the performance of more than 16 popular anti-virus software in removing malware and leftovers. The software were graded as poor, average, good, very good. Here is how the different anti-virus software performed (The results are displayed for their performance against removing malware and leftovers separated by | )

Avast Professional Edition 4.8 : Average | Average
AVG Anti-Virus 8.5 : Average | Average
AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0 : Average | Average
BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010 : Good | Average
eScan Anti-Virus 10.0 : Good | Good
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0 : Average | Average
F-Secure AntiVirus 2010 : Good | Average
G DATA AntiVirus 2010 : Average | Poor
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 : Good | Average
Kingsoft AntiVirus 9 : Poor | Poor
McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 : Average | Average
Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 : Good | Good
Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.10 : Average | Poor
Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6 : Average | Average
Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010 : Good | Good
Trustport Antivirus 2009. : Average | Average

So you can see, not a single ‘Very Good’ software out there, forget the best. But the best bet as of now would be to go for one of Microsoft Security Essentials, or Symantec or eScan. KingSoft users seem to be in deep trouble.

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