That article is heavily biased against other anti-virus vendors not to mention
the freeware anti-virus products as well such as AVG and the like. It favors 
McAfee
and it sounds like a hard sell of McAfee advertising its products.

 Its conslusions I find are bogus especially the analysis of Windows CrashGuard 
it states that it crashes
but does not mention which products or under what circumstances or programs 
besides malicious code
which causes the crash.

 Sure it says that it's thankfull that users have a choice between Symantec, 
check Point but never goes
far beyond the others and doesn't even bother to look at all at the many 
freeware alternatives. Instead
what we get is a Microsoft-bashing contest that McAfee is saying "My antivirus 
software is better than Microsoft's"
mentality.

 To add insult to injury it didn't even bother look to at Windows Defender 
Microsoft's own anti-virus software which is
free to download and is a very good antivirus program at that. It even detects 
malware and other eTrojans that even McAfee and Symantec couldn't detect. I 
could not believe this especially when the article was written by a chief 
scientist at McAfee. A scientist of what? It doen't mention what type of 
scientist below his photo on the left corner of the page. With this I have to 
be very skeptical about his creditials and if he REALLY is a chief scientist at 
that.

What does a chief scientist do? I don't know and niether would anyone who's 
read the article. IMHO I just can't go by
at whats been said face at value that just becuase a person who's or claims to 
be a chief scientist says that Microsoft is wrong on security when a lot of 
holes have been punched in this article. Remmember this just becuase its on the 
net and written by a person who maybe what he isn't, maybe and isn't actually 
true.

I'll just chalk this article up as a vailed attempt to push and sell McAfee 
products to meet its bottom line.
In Fact he sounded more like a Marketing exec than a chief scientist to me and 
who know maybe he is.
Nice try McAfee but I'm not sold one bit.


Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College


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Hi,
I found this interesting but I am curious to what the more 
experienced people on this list think about this subject.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6124040.html?tag=nl.e589 

Warm Regards,
Lou
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