No, I don't have my very own testing lab. I don't have time to test out each and every product that comes out. And no, I don't have anyway to bombard these products with one thousand different viruses to check them out.
But what I can do is review six or eight different resources that I routinely read about (sources who have high paid staffers and the resources to afford independent testing labs), and then tally those results to create our own "best in breed" anti-virus software list.
So, here is our Top 10 (from 10-1). By the way, there maybe multiple products that tied in the scoring, therefore they are ranked together.