Interesting comparisons available there Clint, thanks for the list.
BTW, don't try any of the links for AVK such as www.gdata.com as the
actual site is http://www.gdata.de/portal/GB/privatanwender
Price wise it is expensive for the complete internet security offering
and is closely matched by Norman antivirus, but the basic antivirus
package is comparable in price.
NOD32, was voted best in 2006 by av-comparatives.org and has the highest
rating for the past 9 years from Virus Bulletin virusbtn.com. What
strikes me is the memory usage of said products in this pdf
http://www.eset.com/threat-center/case_study/Colby_Sawyer_white_paper.pdf
Peter Kaulback
Clint - OrpheusComputing.com & ComputersCustomBuilt.com wrote:
If you don't go to a lot of "questionable websites", and don't
get a lot of email with malware in it, AVG or Avast will do ok.
They are far from the best though. I've been using KAV
(Kaspersky) for a few years now and while it's no longer #1,
it's close to it. Interesting that AVK uses the same core and
DB as KAV, yet it ranks tops now. Could be that the newer
versions of KAV aren't up to what they once were, I'm still
using 6.0.0. (what had a 99.x% rating).
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_02.php
AVG is better than Avast overall.
You can look at page 3 here
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/report13.pdf
and see different results, where that shows AVG missed more
than Avast. (Lower graphs are better). But look at the right
"2nd February" and see that it closed the gap. Page 6 gives
more of a breakdown and there is shows Avast is better at the
beginning, but overall AVG gets a higher %'age. "(C) total
detection rates".
AVK (from G-Data) is still the best, but expensive with no
sales or rebates on it. You can get KAV free after a rebate
sometimes. By far the best deal hands-down. Interesting how
bad McAfee and M$ is, both at the bottom. Of course there are
other test sites out there, but that one is pretty much an
authority since they do some really in-depth tests.
-Clint
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