Active Virus Shield is free anti-virus for your PC that combines traditional antivirus programs, stopping them before they can infect your computer. Active Virus Shield is brought to you as a free service of AOL and is based on Kaspersky Lab¡¯s award winning Personal Anti-Virus: Ranked #2 by Consumer Reports (Sep. ¡¯05) Rated ¡°Excellent¡± by TopTenReviews.com (2006) ¡°Offers updates with more frequency¡­ compared with¡­ other security vendors¡± ¨C Information Week ¡°No anti-virus vendor launches a fix faster¡± ¨C Red Herring Active Virus Shield seamlessly integrates with the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems and is compatible with other PC protection programs (firewalls, anti-spyware, etc.).  Like other anti-virus programs, using Active Virus Shield may require that you uninstall other anti-virus programs to avoid product incompatibilities.