What is the BEST ANTIVIRUS of 2025? | 15 providers and my top picks

🧨 Looking for the BEST antivirus in 2025? Our TOP picks right now: 🧨

While I usually do reviews of my current top 3 or top 5 best antivirus picks that I pick out through testing – this time, I have 15 options on my list. I’ll cover each antivirus security level based on independent security institute malware tests, then the pros and cons.

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🔎 NORTON – best for advanced protection
✅ Great testing scores
✅ Lots of security features
✅ Highly customizable
✅ Great for advanced users
❌ Not the lightest on the system
❌ Can be complicated for beginners

🔎 BITDEFENDER – fan-favorite best antivirus 2025
✅ User-friendly apps
✅ Has a firewall
✅ Light on the system
❌ Not the best antivirus for iPhone
❌ 200MB VPN data limit

🔎 TOTAL AV – best for beginners
✅ Good AV-test scores
✅ Impressive security perks
✅ Great for beginners
❌ Very basic VPN
❌ No firewall

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🔎 SURFSHARK ANTIVIRUS – best VPN + antivirus bundle
✅ Covers all the basic best antivirus features
✅ Additional online safety tools
✅ Powerful VPN
❌ No new testing results
❌ VPN is stronger than antivirus

🔎 NORDVPN THREAT PROTECTION – best VPN with antivirus feature
✅ VPN + antivirus feature
✅ Powerful VPN
✅ Lots of features
❌ Not a full antivirus
❌ Only scans downloaded files

🔎 ESET NOD32 – best for Androids
✅ Great reputation
✅ Covers all security essentials
✅ One of the best antivirus for Android options
❌ No iOS app
❌ No new malware testing results

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🔎 MALWAREBYTES
✅ Decent testing scores
✅ Great for beginners
✅ Useful additional features
❌ Lacks some essentials
❌ High price

🔎 AVIRA ANTIVIRUS
✅ Perfect malware testing scores
✅ Lots of additional features
❌ Limited VPN
❌ High price

🔎 AVAST ANTIVIRUS
✅ Perfect malware testing scores
✅ Feature-packed apps
❌ Limited VPN
❌ Data collection issues!!!

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🔎 MCAFEE ANTIVIRUS
✅ Perfect malware testing scores
✅ User-friendly
✅ Lots of features
❌ Lackluster iOS app
❌ Confusing subscription plans

🔎 SOPHOS
✅ Good detection scores (business plan)
✅ Covers all security essentials
❌ Can be heavy on the system
❌ Primarily focused on business users
❌ Expensive basic plan

🔎 INTEGO
✅ One of the best antivirus for Mac options
✅ Feature-packed apps
❌ Testing scores could be better
❌ Not the best antivirus for Windows 10 or 11

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🔎 TREND MICRO
✅ Top antivirus testing scores
✅ Intuitive apps
✅ Lots of features
❌ Some features are only for the priciest plan

🔎 WEBROOT ANTIVIRUS
✅ Lots of features
❌ No new testing scores
❌ Bad last test scores
❌ Outdated apps

🔎 AVG ANTIVIRUS
✅ Great testing scores
✅ Great for advanced users
❌ Not fit for older or low-spec devices
❌ Not the cheapest

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✅ Other top antivirus discounts:

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00:00 Intro
0:24 TotalAV
1:40 Bitdefender
2:38 Norton antivirus
3:31 Surfshark antivirus
4:24 NordVPN Threat Protection
5:16 ESET NOD32
5:57 “Where is KASPERSKY????”
6:12 Malwarebytes
6:52 Avira
7:27 Avast antivirus
8:07 McAfee
8:44 Sophos
9:26 Intego antivirus
10:07 Trend Micro
10:39 Webroot antivirus
11:04 AVG antivirus
11:47 Which antivirus is the BEST?
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[cybernews]

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[paladinofodin]

As soon as you mentioned Norton i knew you were paid to make this list. Norton is at the bottom of almost all lists in every aspect.

[grahamsmith]

While it's true that Kaspersky head office is based in Moscow, Kaspersky has moved key operations and servers out of Russia. The company’s data processing and storage resources are spread around the world and are subject to third-party inspections to ensure the company respects user privacy.

[EchoX]

Consistently leaving out the best antivirus, Kaspersky, because of some fear-mongering, awesome.

[apexgames]

What is the best Kaspersky eset or norton ?

[MrHacross]

While you called out Kaspersky as HQ’d in Russia, I think you should have mentioned where each of the AVs are HQ’d as some of us care about such things. Do I really want to send my personal data to Romania or Taiwan?

[boghy]

Bitdefender has a memory leak. If you keep your pc on 24/7 it will crash your system when ram is full. I use eset now and system is more responsive and crash free after two weeks of pc on full time.

[suomynona]

Realtime support should be first on the list.

[GoodMan-mw]

Best I will say Zone alarm free AV, support by Checkpoint...

[fcdinadnpch]

I am wondering why you didn't mention about ESET NOD32.

[davinp]

McAfee commonly comes pre-installed on Windows PCs & laptops.

[sauravkamble]

Quick heal and k7 security companies from India

[UmbraSpook]

Total AV is not even a real AV. It's like saying, that Protogen Antivirus is a legit AV.

[raould]

Totally unhelpful! Other than recommending ones your paid to promote, you sit on the fence when it comes to actually putting your reputation on the line by recommending. Quite pathetic.

[HANNIBALro]

is this andy whitfield's brother, or rather.. twin?? bruv the looks and voice are almost the same