Comments on: McAfee does poorly in AV sweepstakes http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12463 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:36:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12463/comment-page-1#comment-139320 Reader's Write Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:46:47 +0000 #comment-139320 I agree Kaspersky is one of the best best AV Products. I install the trial on problem machines that I suspect have a virus and it never fails to nail at least 9 or 10 that AVG Norton or McAfee couldn't find. As an IT Admin, I have recently switched my offices from McAfee Corprate to Kaspersky Products. I also found that their Corp. Licensing is easy to setup and took only one 5 minute call to get the License and the product(which you simply download). Cheers to all Kaspersky Users I agree Kaspersky is one of the best best AV Products.
I install the trial on problem machines that I suspect have a virus and it never fails to nail at least 9 or 10 that AVG Norton or McAfee couldn’t find.
As an IT Admin, I have recently switched my offices from McAfee Corprate to Kaspersky Products.
I also found that their Corp. Licensing is easy to setup and took only one 5 minute call to get the License and the product(which you simply download).

Cheers to all Kaspersky Users

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12463/comment-page-1#comment-139313 Reader's Write Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:44:15 +0000 #comment-139313 The figure quoted for Kaspersky Lab in this article is not the latest figure available from AV-Comparatives: June 2007 AV-Comparatives On-Demand Proactive Detection Test: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 AV-Comparatives carried out a Retrospective Standalone Test of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 for its on-demand proactive detection capabilities (following on from the Standard Retrospective Test carried out in May 2007). 1) Unlike others, the product received an ‘Advanced’ rating of 35% (up from the 9% figure quoted in May 2007) 2) Furthermore, the product achieved a very low rate of false alarms. (Kaspersky Lab deliberately tunes its heuristics to avoid the risk of false positives.) Andreas Clementi points out that since version 6.0 Kaspersky Lab includes an additional layer of protection, its real-time proactive defense module (PDM). Andreas points out in the test summary that when applied in conjunction with the PDM, this system works very well and users would achieve a substantially higher detection rate. Andreas states that it would be deserving of a “Proactive Detection Award”. The figure quoted for Kaspersky Lab in this article is not the latest figure available from AV-Comparatives:

June 2007 AV-Comparatives On-Demand Proactive Detection Test: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0

AV-Comparatives carried out a Retrospective Standalone Test of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 for its on-demand proactive detection capabilities (following on from the Standard Retrospective Test carried out in May 2007).

1) Unlike others, the product received an ‘Advanced’ rating of 35% (up from the 9% figure quoted in May 2007)

2) Furthermore, the product achieved a very low rate of false alarms. (Kaspersky Lab deliberately tunes its heuristics to avoid the risk of false positives.)

Andreas Clementi points out that since version 6.0 Kaspersky Lab includes an additional layer of protection, its real-time proactive defense module (PDM). Andreas points out in the test summary that when applied in conjunction with the PDM, this system works very well and users would achieve a substantially higher detection rate. Andreas states that it would be deserving of a “Proactive Detection Award”.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12463/comment-page-1#comment-139307 Reader's Write Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:20:49 +0000 #comment-139307 I use NOD32 for my antivirus program. It's really pretty impressive from a speed/non-interference-with-system-functioning point of view. And this is the second time I've read that NOD32 gets very high marks for detection capabilities. The one thing in which NOD32 doesn't do so well is the interface: compared to the others, it's pretty technical. I use NOD32 for my antivirus program. It’s really pretty impressive from a speed/non-interference-with-system-functioning point of view. And this is the second time I’ve read that NOD32 gets very high marks for detection capabilities.

The one thing in which NOD32 doesn’t do so well is the interface: compared to the others, it’s pretty technical.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12463/comment-page-1#comment-139304 Reader's Write Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:16:31 +0000 #comment-139304 I have yet to see one single antivirus that beats avast! in my opinion. AVG introduces noticeable delays, yet seems to be the first free antivirus that people find out about. The reasons I like avast! over everything else: * The home edition is FREE FREE FREE * It has such low system requirements in mind during development that the impact on the system's PERFORMANCE (the big thing that most AV products drag down significantly) is very minimal * It can do boot-time scanning, which scans the system before the virus itself can actually load (unless the virus loads as a boot driver), and I have seen zero other products that do this so far * It is updated extremely regularly (twice daily is the norm) and the minor notifications are not obnoxiously forced in front of what you're doing like other products No, I don't work for ALWIL Software. I *do* service thousands of residential and business clients every year. I have yet to see one single antivirus that beats avast! in my opinion. AVG introduces noticeable delays, yet seems to be the first free antivirus that people find out about. The reasons I like avast! over everything else:

* The home edition is FREE FREE FREE
* It has such low system requirements in mind during development that the impact on the system’s PERFORMANCE (the big thing that most AV products drag down significantly) is very minimal
* It can do boot-time scanning, which scans the system before the virus itself can actually load (unless the virus loads as a boot driver), and I have seen zero other products that do this so far
* It is updated extremely regularly (twice daily is the norm) and the minor notifications are not obnoxiously forced in front of what you’re doing like other products

No, I don’t work for ALWIL Software. I *do* service thousands of residential and business clients every year.

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