[pchelpers] Re: AVG no longer free
- From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 10:35:17 -0500
Hi Ekhart,
Sunday, May 4, 2008, 2:30:36 AM, you wrote:
EGlnl> It's really quite amazing due to the combination of highest
EGlnl> number of updates, fastest update after virus outbreak, and by
EGlnl> far the highest detection of new, unknown malware through
EGlnl> heuristic analysis. I've seen some incredible statistic charts,
EGlnl> but i couldn't find them quickly now. I think they were at the
EGlnl> above site.
According to the report at
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/report16.pdf, it has
a high false-positive rate.
ESET NOD32, which is #2 on av-comparatives, and tied on
virus-bulletin, is very interesting: av-comparatives marks it as NO
false positives (the only one marked this way), and fast. It ranks
"Advanced+" on both the on-demand and retrospective tests; the only
other product to do so is Kaspersky, which seems to otherwise be an
average performer.
>> For those who want a short summary, 2 programs get a 100% rating, and
>> both are free. Comodo, of which I've heard much good, is one of the
>> two; I installed it on a customer's computer the other day and liked
>> it. It has modes for training (on a clean computer) and for
>> installing.
EGlnl> I tried it and found it quite confusing, and i kept running
EGlnl> into some problem. I don't really remember the details, but i
EGlnl> do remember i really tried to find something else besides the
EGlnl> Sunbelt firewall, which i thought was the only excellent free
EGlnl> one, and i was very disappointed. I'll have to try it again.
EGlnl> The Sunbelt result is very surprising. I'll have to look at the
EGlnl> results and look for a new free alternative.
I'm about to install Comodo here, perhaps we can work out the problem.
I'll also install Avira; I'll see if I can give you an easier way to
disable that message.
--
Scott.
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