Best Internet Security Product Reviews

These are the best reviews of personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-Trojan, anti-spyware, spam stoppers, and hardware router Internet security products that we have been able to find online. As you will see, we prefer comparative reviews.

Personal Firewalls (for more reviews, see our Firewall page)

• Bigger Threats, Better Defense, Mary Landesman, PC World, May 11, 2004, includes testing of software and hardware firewalls from Windows (built-in XP), McAfee, Panda, Sygate, Norton, PC-cillin & ZoneAlarm software; Linksys & Microsoft wireless hardware routers

• PC personal firewalls 2004, Simon Edwards, Dennis Publishing UK, May 2004 -- F-Secure, BlackICE, McAfee, Kaspersky Anti-Hacker, Symantec Norton, Zonealarm Pro, Agnitum Outpost Pro, Sygate Pro.

• Group Test - Firewalls, Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, March 12, 2004: Editor's Choice is Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 [suite], Highly Commended are Agnitum Outpost Personal Firewall Pro 2.0 and Kerio Personal Firewall 4; also reviewed are E-Trust EZ Firewall, ISS BlackIce PC Protection 3.6, McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 2004 v5, Microsoft Windows XP Internet Connection Fireall, Sygate Personal Firewall Standard and Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Pro 4.5. See Features Table PDF.

Anti-Spyware (for more reviews, see our Anti-Spyware page)

• Weeding Out Spies, PC Magazine, June 19, 2005 -- Ad-aware SE Plus, Microsoft Antispyware, Norton, Spy Sweeper, Spybot Search & Destroy, Spyware Doctor, Spyware Eliminator, Spyware X-terminator, Trend Micro & ZeroSpyware.
• Spies, begone: five antispyware apps reviewed, Robert Vamosi, CNet, June 16, 2005 -- Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-aware SE Personal, Microsoft Antispyware, Webroot Spy Sweeper & Norton Antispyware.

• Spyware Stoppers, Mary Landesman, PC World, March 1, 2005 -- CounterSpy. Spy Sweeper, Ad-Aware SE, SpySubtract Pro, Spybot Search & Destroy, PestPatrol, Spyware Eliminator, McAfee, & Internet CleanUp.

Anti-Virus (for more reviews, see our Anti-Virus page)

• PC anti-virus 2005, Simon Edwards, Dennis Publishing UK, February 2005 -- Avast! Home, eTrust EZ, Eset Nod32, F-Secure, Grisoft AVG, Kaspersky Pro, McAfee, NetZ, Panda, Steganos & Norton.

• Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus [Norton, McAfee, Pc-cillin], Robert Vamosi, ZDNet, November 5, 2004

Anti-Trojan (for more reviews, see our Anti-Trojan page)

• Bigger Threats, Better Defense, Mary Landesman, PC World, May 11, 2004, includes anti-trojan testing of Eset NOD32, Grisoft AVG, McAfee, Panda, Norton & PC-cillin

• Best Anti-Trojan Programs -- top six out of forty-two are TDS-3 for experienced users, Trojan Hunter for most users, plus PestPatrol, Tauscan, BoClean and The Cleaner, Tech Support Alert, last updated May 2004.

Spam Stoppers (for more reviews, see our Privacy products page)

• Inbox Tamers, Kevin Savetz, PC World, March 24, 2005 -- Fastmail, Google Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, OnlyMyEmail, MS Outlook, Thunderbird, PocoMail, and Qualcomm Eudora.

• Two Roads to a Spam-Free Inbox -- Norton & SpamNet, Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, October 28, 2004

• Anti-Spam Round-up: Stop the Spam-sanity, Adam Stone & Forrest Stroud, WinPlanet, July 29, 2004 -- Qurb, SpamKiller, SpamNet, Death2Spam, Norton, Mailshell & Spam Interceptor.

• Antispam Tools: Can They Keep Up? Neil Rubenking, PC Magazine, July 9, 2004 -- MailFrontier, ChoiceMail One, iHateSpam, Spam Shredder & SpamBully.

Firewall Routers (for more reviews, see our wired Router page)

• Reader Satisfaction Survey -- Home-Networking Routers, Cade Metz, PC Magazine, December 1, 2004

• Comparo: Netgear RP614 & D-Link DI-604, Scott Finnie's Newsletter, May 27, 2003
• Four Broadband Routers for Gaming & Home LAN Security, Loyd Case & Dave Salvator, ExtremeTech, January 3, 2003

Wireless Routers (for more reviews, see our Wireless page)

• Linksys Sweeps All Three Categories [wireless routers], Oliver Kaven, PC Magazine, June 7, 2005

• Reader Satisfaction Survey -- Home-Networking Routers, Cade Metz, PC Magazine, December 1, 2004

• Wireless Routers For Road Warriors, Craig Ellison, PC Magazine, September 13, 2004