AV-Comparatives August 2005 Overview

Thank you for letting me know. That reseller will now hear from me

Please do not provide any details in the meantime (also remove the comment you did already please). Thx!

BTW: I just got the info from Lycos that Lycos have blocked the access to all websites they host on their servers for those who try to access from China (since March2005!). Reason: they had some hacker attacks. nice; just do that they block the access for such a big country like china forever. So, if someone is from china and is not able to reach my website, now you know why. Tell it to the media and to lycos if you are unhappy about this, maybe due some pressures they will grant again the access of China. One solution would be to buy an even bigger webhsoting packet from lycos, but I will not do that, it is already quite expensive and i see no reason for it; they should allow china to visit the sites. In the meantime i am going to prepare a special site for chinese people, in order that also they can access to the results...

 

Given that a full 75% of hacker attacks originate from China. Also add in that China is the haven for piracy, illegal copying schemes, and intellectual property violations... Do you think this isn't justified? My ISP blocks all inbounds from China, my web hosting service blocks all inbounds from China, and my router is setup to block all referers and redirections to and from China.

I think it is all justified actually given the statistics I have from my own firm regarding Chinese credit card fraud on our sites.

 

Somewhat off topic but how do you set up your router to block all referers and redirections to and from China?

 

I suggest everyone read it and learn a little bit about testing methods used.
I learned that you don't just use executabe type, you use the drivers associated too. Interesting. Good job!

 

hm, do you mean the extensions? ->EXE, DLL, VXD, ELF, SYS, SWF, HLP, CLA, JS, HTA, REG, RTF, MDB, PDF, ASP, DOC, XLS, PPT, VSD, PIF, COM, PL, SH, INI, INF, XML, VBS, HTM, BAT, PHP, etc.

btw, probably during tomorrow i will upload the results. i just have to do some other thing first...

 

Yes. That is what I was trying to get at. The word eluded me for a moment.

 

Seems to be an interesting test. I'm sitting here and waiting for the results to come.....now where is my Zlaty Bazant?