UK-based magazine Computer Shopper has awarded Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 its ‘Best Buy’ rating for an antivirus solution. This was announced by Kaspersky Lab in a press release. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 received a five-star rating and Best Buy status following the comparative testing of 11 popular security solutions that included freeware, shareware and commercial versions.

Competing products were tested against real threats that are currently live on the Internet. The protection solutions were installed on identical PCs running the Windows XP SP2 operating system. All products were rated on detection level, quality of system recovery, use of system resources as well as the number of false positives generated by a collection of clean files which, just to make things more difficult, included potentially unwanted programs such as password crackers.  Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 demonstrated the best overall score and was therefore awarded the top five-star rating and Best Buy status.