Antivirus / Internet security products reviewed

 I've done technical tests of AV products in previous blogs, but this one is of my personal experience.

1. Norton - generally slow
2. BitDefender - good, but monumentally performance degrading, and features don't always work as advertised
3. Avast - has always caused BSODs because of the network filter driver
4. AVG - loaded with advertisements - do not recommend
5. ESET - very lightweight load wet performant. High granular control esp over the firewall which does not interfere. Brower sandbox.
6. McAfee - bloated, fragmented, slowly updated, archaic
7. Kaspersky - one of the best, but no longer trusted by UK or US governments, and dropped by Barclays
8. Webroot - all scanning is done online similar to how VirusTotal operates - so useless if there is no internet connection
9. F-Secure - not bad
10. Windows Defender - very basic
11. Malwarebytes - poor detection
12. Firewall products
1. Glasswire - blocks rather than leaves requests pending

Previous older reviews: https://rjcuk.blogspot.com/2009/08/security-software.html 

Not tried:

• Trend Micro
• Panda
• Avira
• Bulldog