Reference number: CH000514

What are the current available antivirus programs?

Question:

Answer:

Below is a complete list, in alphabetical order, of companies who provide antivirus programs and the platforms they provide protection for. Clicking on the company link will take you to information about that company, including their web page. You can also purchase many of the below virus protection programs through our products page.

Company	Windows	Apple	Linux	Mobile	Free?
AntiVir	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
AVG	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Avira	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
BitDefender	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
ClamWin	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
ESET NOD32	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
F-Prot	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Kaspersky	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
McAfee	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MSE	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Network Associates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Panda Software	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
RAV	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Sophos	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Symantec (Norton)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Trend Micro	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Vipre	Yes	No	No	No	No
Webroot	Yes	No	No	No	No

Which antivirus is the best?

Below is a listing of different review sites we suggest looking at to know what may be best antivirus program for you. We suggest these review pages since they're updated frequently and run through a complete test with each program.

Online scanners

In addition to the above antivirus program recommendations users can also use free online virus scanners. Additional information and a listing of these service can be found on document CH000617.

Additional information:

See our dictionary antivirus definition for a definition of the term and/or see document CH000104 for information about what a virus is.