Antiviruses

so then KAV is a bit better than mcafee for detection rate ok.

But wat about features??
does mcafee scan the same amount of file types or more?
is the program itself better.

if u have a virus/worm/trojan it doesn't let u open it.
does mcafee scan pop3 and http

 

Yes I'm not sure about http but McAfee scans POP3.

It scans the same file types as Kaspersky, but its unpacker is not as good as Kaspersky's, but it manages to open files with unknown packer anyway through a method which I do not know.

The interface of McAfee 9.0 itself is nice, but then you have that SecurityCenter crap. And KAV seemed lighter for me than McAfee.

I'd say KAV's interface is better, and KAV has slightly more features, like the mni-firewall.

In McAfee 7 if I have virus/worm/trojan/adware/spyware it will pop up a box asking me what to do..it irritates me and I cannot configure it to automatically quarantine/delete.

 

So then overall KAV is a bit better than mcafee

 

You can say that, you're right as per MY personal experience.

 

i know it wont happen if it could

but if KAV wanted to could they buy an antispyware scan engine. like adaware se (lavasoft), spysweeper, spywaredoctor etc....

 

Yes......

 

If they wanted...but since they dont ever sleep they can put all adware/spyware/riskware detections into their database anyways...KAV does a good job at catching spyware and adware and riskware.

 

look i have a problem i used to have riskware detection enabled but i disabled it beacause it never used to let me use mirc. and it always used to say this is not a virus its a risk. and i feel safer with riskware detection enabled?

 

Riskware detection is not required...but I use it because mirc Radmin etc. can be used by hackers to gain control of my precious PC. Which is why I feel so much safer with it enabled.