And the winner is ...

... http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/83.htm#avv

I'm outta here ... I don't know much about this AV, I'll let ya'll argue this one out.

Acadia

 

I don't know if it is the best but is an excellent and reliable product.

 

It's based on his experience and his computer setup. It doesn't make it the AV of the year.

 

Yup. (Oops, I said that I was "Outta here", didn't I )

Acadia

 

AVG in third place and F-Secure scanning faster than KAV?

 

Good grief, you fellows are making it hard for me to stay out ... I don't believe that is the free version of AVG, is it?

Acadia

 

F-Secure scans faster on my computer than Kav, it is not even close.

 

Scot tested teh network version of AVG but home users would likely stick with the free version.

rele? F-Secure having multiple engines and KAV having ichecker and iswift, i thought KAV would be faster.

i guess not. the world is full of surprises.

 

F-secure faster than KAV
I dont think so, based on my experiences on these two AVs.

 

I am using both, and after the initial scan KAV scans in about 6 - 7 minutes, and sometimes less for a "Scan My Computer."
In contrast F-Secure always takes at least 40 minutes to do the same job.

I do like F-Secure, but I am still having update problems. I just uninstalled/installed it, and if I have problems for the next couple of days, it goes.

Regards,
Jerry

 

This is exactly what I was going to say. I do not know much about AVG and I really think F-Secure is a very fine product, it came higly recommended by bigc73542, someone whom I respect and who's opinion I value a great deal. However, there is no way that F-Secure is faster than KAV. I know that AVs behave differently on different systems. I just don't buy that claim. During my own recent test I compared the number of files scanned with the duration, and here are the results (granted I was having an issue with KAV so the data for it was not available at the time, but I'm running it now and will post the data momentarily):
RESULTS

 

I guess I was wrong. Judging stictly by time, F-Secure took the least amount of time to run a complete system scan of the AV products I tested. That includes NOD32, KAV, BitDefender and F-Secure. I did not test Norton, but I'm certain that Norton would take considerably longer than F-Secure because I run it on my desktop.

That being said, below are the statistical results from my test. The interesting thing is that F-Secure scanned the fewest number of files, by far. Judging by number of files scanned / unit of time, F-Secure is by far the least efficient.


Test System

Pemtium M 1.7 GHz processor
1024 MB of PC2700 RAM 333 MHz
60 GB HD @ 7200 RPM
(more details available upon request)

Scan Results

BitDefender
# of files scanned: 456,574
Scan duration(min): 47:34
Scan Rate (files/min.): 9,598

F-Secure (Internet Security 2006)
# of files scanned: 39,025
Scan duration(min): 33:49
Scan Rate (files/min.): 1,154

NOD32
# of files scanned: 1,173,315
Scan duration(min): 109:20
Scan Rate (files/min.): 10,732

KAV
# of files scanned: 248,168
Scan duration(min): 42:56
Scan Rate (files/min.): 5,780

 

yikes, look at the difference in the amount of scanned files! no wonder fsecure is faster if they only scan ~40.000 files compared to 1.2 million files that nod32 scanned....

My guess is you either used totally uncomparable configurations (i.e. concerning archives and unpacking), or fsecures unpacking stinks more than i thought. It's absolutely impossible for fsecure as a multi engine product to outperform nod32 or bitdefender....

Did you reboot between the attempts? Did you make certain you never ever scanned that directory before because of some engines checksumming/only scan changed files options?

In a good test you must wipe the complete test hd, unpack the full test set, reboot and then start the scan over the set with one scanner. After testing one scanner, wipe the disk again and continue as with the first.
You also have to make sure you're using comparable settings or at least max out the possible settings.

According to av-comparatives the fastest scanner atm are panda, avira and nod32 (in that order) while imho panda has an advantage because their engine isn't really doing anything terribly advanced compared to nod32 and avira

 

This judgement isn't correct because files may vary and because of this , the file size also
Do you see the difference between scanned files of Vendor1 and Vendor2, for example ?
In order to have official results , you need to show results KB or MB per second

Virus Bulletin , June 2006
Tests on Windows XP , Scanning speed

NOD32 : 17 395,9 KB/s
Sophos : 6 501,5 KB/s
McAfee : 4 179,5 KB/s
Symantec : 3 657,1 KB/s
Kaspersky : 3 556,1 KB/s
AVG : 2 860,7 KB/s

 

F-secure in my opinion has a better interface than KAV for sure and as with Scot,i always seem to run in with problems with KAV.
I dont think at all that AVG is even in contention when we discuss top AV's.
Also,i will agree with scot that F-secure is a very good AV,which i think has bitdefender and kaspersky's engine...

 

I tried F-Secure Internet Security 2006, not the stand alone AV product. Does anyone know if the stand alone AV from F-Secure is compatible with Zone Alarm?

 

Something for you all to remember, for those of you who are using Raxco's FirstDefense, some AV will scan ALL of the Snapshots, equivalent to scanning your c:drive multiple times. NOD is one AV that does that, don't know about f-Secure.

Acadia

 

F-Secure is a fantastic anti-malware program, but it does not work well with others. This includes any current version of ZA. That being said, if you can get your hands on a copy of F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.02 (legitimately, of course! ), you may find that much more to your liking than the consumer versions of F-Secure. Great features, and no extras that you'll never use. I ditched the very poorly interfaced new McAfee VirusScan Plus for it. Like night and day as far as an intuitive interface goes. Great multi-layered firewall with this.

 

All i can say is lol.

 

LOL.

Of course not.
Maybe somebody need to teach him how to install and setup an AV.How it works, what is packers, etc.