Comments on: Best Antivirus (Retrospective Tests) http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/ Technology News Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:30:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-126241 Ryan Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:22:32 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-126241 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-126144" rel="nofollow">Inferno_str1ke wrote:</a><blockquote>not overly-protective and don’t utterly slow down a PC (as well as being easy to install, areas where McAffee and Norton fail totally).</blockquote></div> Amen to that! Norton and McAffee have almost driven me to insanity with how difficult they can be to completely remove from new computers. Inferno_str1ke wrote:
not overly-protective and don’t utterly slow down a PC (as well as being easy to install, areas where McAffee and Norton fail totally).

Amen to that! Norton and McAffee have almost driven me to insanity with how difficult they can be to completely remove from new computers.

]]> By: Inferno_str1ke http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-126144 Inferno_str1ke Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:41:23 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-126144 How are old tests any better than these new ones? These tests have been done very professionally with lots of viruses and programs tested. Glad to see that NOD came out on top - I've always liked the fact that their programs are simple, not overly-protective and don't utterly slow down a PC (as well as being easy to install, areas where McAffee and Norton fail totally). How are old tests any better than these new ones? These tests have been done very professionally with lots of viruses and programs tested. Glad to see that NOD came out on top – I’ve always liked the fact that their programs are simple, not overly-protective and don’t utterly slow down a PC (as well as being easy to install, areas where McAffee and Norton fail totally).

]]> By: João Rocha http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-126033 João Rocha Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:12:17 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-126033 Its old but the tests are much realistic [url]http://virus.gr/portal/en/node/28[/url] well it's european website Its old but the tests are much realistic

[url][virus.gr][/url]

well it’s european website

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-126024 Ryan Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:31:06 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-126024 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-125988" rel="nofollow">Joe Ledvina wrote:</a><blockquote>I don’t know if they have any basis for legal action, but I can understand them being concerned about getting the traffic for their own hard work.</blockquote></div> If they post it in the public domain it is hard for them to restrict it though. It's not like they can copyright their results, or prevent where people link to. We do link to the homepage, but they offer no easy way to point users to the test results, which I find to be stupid. I don't want to try and explain to our readers how to go to their site and find the test results. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-126021" rel="nofollow">Doug Woodall wrote:</a><blockquote>It will be interesting how these all these products do in the coming year as far as sales. It seem to me lately that the biggest advertiser is the one that gets the most sales. It dosent matter how good a product it is in most cases.</blockquote></div> That will probably always be the case. Since companies like McAfee and Norton are so big they are able to contract computer manufacturers to put their software on new computers. Unfortunately this results in many people running expired antivirus definitions after 6 months or a year. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-125947" rel="nofollow">CoryC wrote:</a><blockquote>Yet again NOD32 shines through. Users of all other anti-virus programs, this is your wake up call.</blockquote></div> Yeah, this was a little reassurance to justify my recent purchase of the ESET Smart Security. Joe Ledvina wrote:
I don’t know if they have any basis for legal action, but I can understand them being concerned about getting the traffic for their own hard work.

If they post it in the public domain it is hard for them to restrict it though. It’s not like they can copyright their results, or prevent where people link to. We do link to the homepage, but they offer no easy way to point users to the test results, which I find to be stupid. I don’t want to try and explain to our readers how to go to their site and find the test results.

Doug Woodall wrote:
It will be interesting how these all these products do in the coming year as far as sales. It seem to me lately that the biggest advertiser is the one that gets the most sales.
It dosent matter how good a product it is in most cases.

That will probably always be the case. Since companies like McAfee and Norton are so big they are able to contract computer manufacturers to put their software on new computers. Unfortunately this results in many people running expired antivirus definitions after 6 months or a year.

CoryC wrote:
Yet again NOD32 shines through. Users of all other anti-virus programs, this is your wake up call.

Yeah, this was a little reassurance to justify my recent purchase of the ESET Smart Security.

]]> By: Doug Woodall http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-126021 Doug Woodall Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:58:12 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-126021 It will be interesting how these all these products do in the coming year as far as sales. It seem to me lately that the biggest advertiser is the one that gets the most sales. It dosent matter how good a product it is in most cases. It will be interesting how these all these products do in the coming year as far as sales. It seem to me lately that the biggest advertiser is the one that gets the most sales.
It dosent matter how good a product it is in most cases.

]]> By: Joe Ledvina http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-125988 Joe Ledvina Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:06:45 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-125988 AV-Comparatives is pretty protective of their test results: "Please link ONLY to our main site www.av-comparatives.org and not to the other subpages. It's forbidden to use/provide our test results/documents on other sites without our permission. If you find anything on other sites, please inform the forum/site admin to remove it." I don't know if they have any basis for legal action, but I can understand them being concerned about getting the traffic for their own hard work. AV-Comparatives is pretty protective of their test results:

“Please link ONLY to our main site [av-comparatives.org] and not to the other subpages.
It’s forbidden to use/provide our test results/documents on other sites without our permission.
If you find anything on other sites, please inform the forum/site admin to remove it.”

I don’t know if they have any basis for legal action, but I can understand them being concerned about getting the traffic for their own hard work.

]]> By: Dave http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-125960 Dave Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:27:53 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-125960 Another thing I love about NOD32 is that it does everything with only two processes. It's a nice change from other's that use a separate one for scheduling, another one for the engine, another one for the gui.. etc. etc Another thing I love about NOD32 is that it does everything with only two processes. It’s a nice change from other’s that use a separate one for scheduling, another one for the engine, another one for the gui.. etc. etc

]]> By: Ashley http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-125955 Ashley Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:32:28 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-125955 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-125947" rel="nofollow">CoryC wrote:</a><blockquote>Yet again NOD32 shines through. Users of all other anti-virus programs, this is your wake up call.</blockquote></div> Which is why I'm using NOD32 :) CoryC wrote:
Yet again NOD32 shines through. Users of all other anti-virus programs, this is your wake up call.

Which is why I’m using NOD32 :)

]]> By: nimicitor http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-125948 nimicitor Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:03:46 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-125948 Wow F-Secure really failed that. :cry: Wow F-Secure really failed that.

:cry:

]]> By: CoryC http://cybernetnews.com/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-125947 CoryC Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:49:45 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2007/12/07/best-antivirus-retrospective-tests/#comment-125947 Yet again NOD32 shines through. Users of all other anti-virus programs, this is your wake up call. Yet again NOD32 shines through. Users of all other anti-virus programs, this is your wake up call.

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