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AOL search data reportedly released. Update: Search engines point to malicious Web sites. How to build your own corporate IM system. Also missing are some additional scanning capabilities. But the protection that you do get is good, and AOL Active Virus Shield won't slow your system or otherwise affect its performance. For complete antivirus test results, see our CNET antivirus performance test page.

Robert Vamosi. AOL Active Virus Shield requires an e-mail address, is limited to one year, and lacks the complete protection provided by a paid-for antivirus app. For a free antivirus program, we think it's very good, and Kaspersky, through AOL, becomes the first major antivirus vendor to offer a free version of its highly rated product.

For a free antivirus program, we think it's very good, and we wish other major antivirus vendors would offer light versions of their products. Kaspersky is well known within the antivirus community as one of the better antivirus apps in terms of catching malware, and in CNET Labs' tests , we found that Kaspersky didn't slow our test PC like Norton AntiVirus, nor did it take as long to scan our entire test hard drive. The same is true with this "lite" version, the second free security application to be offered through AOL.

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