chat on F-Secure & Norton 09 NOT A COMPARISON

Ok, I can understand your restrictions.
But in Norton 2009, NAB and SONAR have been integrated.
Please see Wilders Post here, which has link to Symantec Forum where more specific are available.

So now in Norton 2009 will be comparable to DeepGuard, IMO.

 

@vijayind
Roger! Didn't knew the integration of NAB in SONAR was already completed. However in the current 2008 versions SONAR didn't seem to impress really.

The only doubts I have is that SONAR with NAB integrated seems more a temporary solution since the NAB technology is not owed by Symantec. I won't be surprised to see it getting replaced by ThreatFire in the 2010 versions.

 

Ah, you mean heuristic detection? Yeah, Norton is better on that. By the way both Symantec and F-Secure made 2 false positives. But I meant signature detection.

 

I agree, since NAB was basically licensed from Sana Security its probably a temporary solution. Which probably will be replaced by the newly acquired PCTools' ThreatFire.

So Norton will have a good HIPS solution anyways.

 

If you look at the On-demand comparative, Norton got 97.7% and F-Secure 97.5 %.

In heuristic/proactive test, Norton beat F-Secure hands-down by a large margin.

In cumulative sense, I then conclude Norton has a better scanner than F-Secure.

 

I agree on heuristic detection, but from my experience on a lot of computers I can't agree on signature detection. To say the truth This test is much more near to my experience: http://www.virus.gr/portal/en/content/2008-06,-1-21-june

 

Sure if you trust virus.gr Those tests are highly debated.
But my point is that in cumulatively Norton (with heuristic + signature) scanner is better.

 

Not that I'm an admin, but this suuuure is starting to look like a this vs that thread

I thought (and I could be wrong) the original question was if it was worth changing one for the other if the OP already had a license for one of the products. I didn't think so (sure there are differences between the two, but both provide pretty good protection - enough that I don't think a switch is worth the extra $$$).

 

It's not that I trust virus.gr more than av-comparatives, just giving that as an example of how the things are according to my experience.

 

And I have given my opinion. Let let larry decide which is better for him.

 

Not again .... I just got a wrap on my knuckles a few weeks back...

 

Just a side note.. I've seen infected McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky and so on computers - but ive actually never seen an infectet F-Secure machine

 

Unfortunately I have. Hence the grimness.

 

You mean the parent situation? In that case your parents didn't have full control so the situation could have been different if they would have known how to use DeepGuard.

@eBBox:me too, with the difference that all the Kav-infected users had blacklisted keys.

 

Hi all.

I've just been over to F-Secure's website (as we use their Client Security at work) and see they're advertising IS2009, AV2009 and Home Server 2009 for release on the 3rd September.

 

I can't seen it on f-secure's website Only a tag that says "[Product name]2009 Free upgrade "

 

maybe your using blocking scripts?
there is a big banner at the top.

 

@Ade 1
That's right, the 2009 versions will be released the 3rd of September. Client Security 8 will follow somewhere in Q4 2008.

 

hmm according to the notes on the beta page there should be 64bit vista support.
will have to check on september 3rd.

 

@lodore : Adblock's fault. I had to disable it in order to see the banner. But I completed the puzzle!

 

LOL
what did completing the puzzle do?
when i completed the puzzle in opera it took me to an empty cart.
the top of the page said something like free upgrade to 2009 version or something.

 

Lol

 

I think it's more to do if you buy FS2008 you'll be able to use the same activation key with FS2009 hence it being termed as a free upgrade!

I beta tested IS2009 back in June (the last release was the RC on 3rd June) and it ran very well but it was just a shame that there was never any future builds to address the issues highlighted in the release notes and also feedback given by testers.

So the official release is 3 months on from the RC - I will wait to see.

 

Thats probably because no one really runs F-Secure.

 

Welcome to the forums Mr Cynical.