This policy explains how the Virus Defense Guide Team approaches product comparisons, commercial relationships, evidence, updates, and corrections.
Our purpose is to help readers understand meaningful differences between consumer antivirus products. We aim to use clear language, distinguish confirmed features from plan-dependent claims, and identify limitations that may affect a purchase decision.
We may earn compensation from some provider links. Commercial relationships can affect which products are available for us to feature, but compensation does not guarantee a positive statement or a particular score. Advertising disclosures appear prominently on commercial pages.
We consider product use, provider documentation, plan terms, independent laboratory context, regulatory records, and recurring patterns in user feedback. Provider claims are treated as claims and may be qualified when availability depends on plan, platform, region, or time.
User feedback helps identify repeated experiences involving setup, billing, renewals, support, performance, and usability. It is contextual evidence rather than a controlled test, and individual experiences may not represent every customer.
Scores are editorial assessments, not laboratory certifications, guarantees, or outputs from a fixed mathematical formula. Recommendations are conditional: the better product depends on devices, required features, budget, location, and comfort with subscription terms.
We update content when important facts change or when we identify an error. A modification date does not mean every statement was retested on that date. Correction requests can be sent to contact@virusdefenseguide.com.
We do not invent personal experts, claim certifications we do not hold, present affiliate rankings as laboratory results, or guarantee that a security product will prevent every infection, scam, privacy incident, or account compromise.