Captain_Collins
Clovis Sub Fan
Hi all,
This may be slightly off topic, but I feel it is important enough to post here.
My College tutor has just completed a PHd study of antivirus products, and he has found that the main four antivirus programs he tested rate like this:
Norton(corporate edition)(commercial) found false positives (seeing a virus that isn't there) 0.2% of the time. It had positive negatives (not seeing viruses that are there) 4% of the time, and it took on average one day to update. This was the best commercial antivirus tested.
Kapernsky (Sp?)(freeware) found false positives 8% of the time, it had positive negatives 6% of the time, and it took 3 days to update. However, this product came out worst in terms of usability and support so is NOT RECOMENDED.
These are the two to watch:
AVG (freeware) found false positives 72% of the time, and positive negatives 78% of the time, and it took 1 day to update. Also, AVG uses the larges amount of computer resources out of the four. Therefore, I recommend you GET RID OF AVG IMMEDIATLEY!
The best performer in the freeware catergory was Avira. It found false positives 4% of the time, and postive negatives 6% of the time, ranking it very close to Norton. It is also very resource light, meaning it will impact less on your computer than all the others compared (other than Norton).
Therefore, my recommendation to you is to get Avira, as none of the other freeware antivirus products compared will do their jobs as well as Avira, especially not AVG.
Oh, by the way, if anyone wants a DVD of malware, then PM me:hehe:
This may be slightly off topic, but I feel it is important enough to post here.
My College tutor has just completed a PHd study of antivirus products, and he has found that the main four antivirus programs he tested rate like this:
Norton(corporate edition)(commercial) found false positives (seeing a virus that isn't there) 0.2% of the time. It had positive negatives (not seeing viruses that are there) 4% of the time, and it took on average one day to update. This was the best commercial antivirus tested.
Kapernsky (Sp?)(freeware) found false positives 8% of the time, it had positive negatives 6% of the time, and it took 3 days to update. However, this product came out worst in terms of usability and support so is NOT RECOMENDED.
These are the two to watch:
AVG (freeware) found false positives 72% of the time, and positive negatives 78% of the time, and it took 1 day to update. Also, AVG uses the larges amount of computer resources out of the four. Therefore, I recommend you GET RID OF AVG IMMEDIATLEY!
The best performer in the freeware catergory was Avira. It found false positives 4% of the time, and postive negatives 6% of the time, ranking it very close to Norton. It is also very resource light, meaning it will impact less on your computer than all the others compared (other than Norton).
Therefore, my recommendation to you is to get Avira, as none of the other freeware antivirus products compared will do their jobs as well as Avira, especially not AVG.
Oh, by the way, if anyone wants a DVD of malware, then PM me:hehe: