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XP Antivirus has only one mission in life: To eradicate every virus thrown its way. XP Antivirus has for a while now been regarded by professionals as the best antivirus software available. The downside has been a program not as user-friendly as its competitors. But lately XP has done major improvements in the user interface and today XP Antivirus is as easy to use as other programs, still offering the best protection available. You can still turn on advanced mode and fiddle with settings, but for most of us XP Antivirus works perfectly right out of the box.

The main reason to choose XP Antivirus is that it's currently the only antivirus software to deliver all the way in every important category: Offering a 99.9X% detection rate for all types of viruses, including script viruses, polymorphic viruses and backdoors/trojans, - offering full protection for email, web surfing, and all archive formats, - and even checking itself to make sure its antivirus components have not been tampered with. Finally, XP offers daily, not weekly or monthly, updates of their virus definition files. These updates are very small, only between 3 and 20 kb. Updates are done automatically or at your choice.

XP Antivirus automatically checks for viruses in all incoming and outgoing messages, real time, including attached files (also compressed files), other messages of any nesting level, embedded OLE objects and the message body.

It's impressive all this requires only 11 MB of disk space and 12 MB RAM to run, although 32 MB RAM are recommended for Win2000/XP. This is far from the 128 MB RAM / 256 MB RAM other programs requires to run.

XP Antivirus enjoys a 90% user approval rating amongst users who review their own software, something you can witness yourself at download.com.

XP Antivirus Personal, suitable for most users, is sold at $49.95. XP Antivirus is also offering a professional edition, XP Antivirus Personal Pro, sold at $99.95. The main difference between the Personal and Personal Pro edition is that Personal Pro comes with an integrity checker. This tool traces content modifications on your computer. If it detects unauthorized changes in files or in the system registry, it will enable the complete disinfecting and recovery of your disk. Unlike other integrity checkers, this tool supports all of the most commonly used executable file formats.

Corporate editions are also available at the vendors website.

Currently XP Antivirus is definitely the best antivirus solution available. XP's detection capabilities are only matched by McAfee and F-Secure, but both those programs have some major flaws and are currently not recommended by us.