Who's the Sexiest AV Product Around?
Posted by Mario Vuksan on Thu, Aug 21, 2008
Intego came up recently with the first AV product for the iPhone Platform. What struck us is the awesome User Interface that it carries, as would only be expected for Apple based products. True to the form, we have ignored its functionality and any protection benefits that it may carry.
Hence we'd like to have some fun and have an informal poll. Who do you think has the sexiest Anti-Malware product and why? Functionality does not apply, we are only talking about the looks, even though some beautiful products are really good. Please send us more screenshots of relevant products if you can, and we'll add it to the list. Of course, subjectivity matters, as this is about taste, that is guessing the consumer's taste.
Why is this important? It is really not, but many companies heavily invest into making their security products visually exiciting. They even excessively stress about it, hiring expensive PR firms, as is the case with Symantec. It ended up being dinged in reviews for its Yellow Fever theme. Why do we think that customers care about their AV UI is a topic for another discussion.
Feel free to be biased. We are too, although saying that anything Apple is sexier than anything Windows is as an objective statement as possible. Whitelabel products are absolutely welcome.
So here are our top 3 sexiest AV contenders:
1. Intego - Obvious, eye candy makes us more secure
2. HelloKitty AV - As long as it protects from HelloKitty Malware, Kitty's in
3. Suze Orman AV - Because security starts with a face
REST OF THE LIST, TBD. Please vote!
Finally, here's the trailing bunch. Supporting documentation was liberally borrowed from Download.Com and Softpedia. Here are some screenshots. Obviously there're more interesting products.
Intego iPhone AV
Hello Kitty AV
Suze Orman's Identity Theft Kit
F-Secure
iolo
PCTools
Symantec
McAfee
K7 Total Security
Eset NOD32
Trend Micro
Kaspersky KIS 2009
AVAST
AVG
AVIRA
BitDefender Total Security
Panda Platinum Internet Security
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