PCMag review

Now after this new marketing name even those very few home users who are looking for a standalone AT most probably will go with another AT which sells under a name realated to trojans or malware, While many people who are looking for AS either will go with another AS that do better in defending against spyware. Very logic and simple.

 

This is only one test. If you are looking at these tests

http://www.malware-test.com/antispyware.html

and combine those 3 last tests where ewido 4 was within together with these apps, so ewido wasn't so poor than Pc Mag was saying but the others were too. What we can do with sofwares, where even the best is unable to clean over 45 %?


Ninth Round (August 7, 2006): 127 entries

Cleanup Success Rate for Entry-based Viewpoint:

74.02% = 94 -- Trend Micro Anti-Spyware
58.27% = 74 -- Webroot Spy Sweeper
56.69% = 72 -- McAfee antispyware
53.54% = 68 -- Sunbelt CounterSpy
50.39% = 64 -- PC Tools Spyware Doctor
48.82% = 62 -- Lavasoft Ad-Aware
46.47% = 59 -- F-Secure Internet Security
43.31% = 55 -- ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware
40.16% = 51 -- Panda Platinum Internet Security
38.58% = 49 -- Microsoft Windows Defender
38.58% = 49 -- Norton Internet Security
37.80% = 48 -- ewido anti-spyware
35.43% = 45 -- Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro:
35.43% = 45 -- SUPERAntispyware
25.98% = 33 -- Kaspersky Internet Security:
25.20% = 32 -- Aluria Anti-Spyware
22.83% = 29 -- Computer Associates Anti-Spyware:
17.32% = 22 -- NOD32
11.81% = 15 -- Spybot S&D


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Tenth Round (August 26, 2006): 111 entries

Cleanup Success Rate for Entry-based Viewpoint:

71.17% = 79 -- Trend Micro Anti-Spyware
68.47% = 76 -- Sunbelt CounterSpy
65.77% = 73 -- Webroot Spy Sweeper
62.16% = 69 -- ewido anti-spyware
62.16% = 69 -- McAfee antispyware
59.46% = 66 -- PC Tools Spyware Doctor
54.05% = 60 -- Norton Internet Security
49.55% = 55 -- Computer Associates Anti-Spyware
44.14% = 49 -- F-Secure Internet Security
44.14% = 49 -- Microsoft Windows Defender
39.64% = 44 -- Lavasoft Ad-Aware
38.74% = 43 -- Panda Platinum Internet Security
38.74% = 43 -- Spybot S&D
38.74% = 43 -- ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware
36.94% = 41 -- SUPERAntispyware
32.43% = 36 -- Kaspersky Internet Security
30.63% = 34 -- NOD32:
22.52% = 25 -- Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro
_9.00% = 10 -- Aluria Anti-Spyware


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Eleventh Round (September 26, 2006): 126 entries

Cleanup Success Rate for Entry-based Viewpoint:

35.71% = 45 -- Sunbelt CounterSpy
33.33% = 42 -- Norton Internet Security
31.75% = 40 -- PC Tools Spyware Doctor
28.57% = 36 -- Computer Associates Anti-Spyware
28.57% = 36 -- McAfee antispyware
27.78% = 35 -- ewido anti-spyware
27.78% = 35 -- Webroot Spy Sweeper
25.40% = 32 -- Spybot S&D
24.60% = 31 -- Kaspersky Internet Security
24.60% = 31 -- SUPERAntispyware
22.22% = 28 -- F-Secure Internet Security
21.43% = 27 -- Panda Platinum Internet Security
20.63% = 26 -- Trend Micro Anti-Spyware
16.67% = 21 -- ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware
15.87% = 20 -- Lavasoft Ad-Aware
15.87% = 20 -- Microsoft Windows Defender
15.08% = 19 -- Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro
11.90% = 15 -- NOD32
_7.94% = 10 -- Aluria Anti-Spyware:



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SUMMARY, these 3 last rounds TOTAL: 364 entries in 40 spies

Cleanup Success Rate for Entry-based Viewpoint:

54.67% = 199 -- Trend Micro Anti-Spyware
51.92% = 189 -- Sunbelt CounterSpy
50.00% = 182 -- Webroot Spy Sweeper
48.63% = 177 -- McAfee antispyware
46.70% = 170 -- PC Tools Spyware Doctor
41.76% = 152 -- ewido anti-spyware
41.21% = 151 -- Norton Internet Security
37.36% = 136 -- F-Secure Internet Security
34.62% = 126 -- Lavasoft Ad-Aware
33.24% = 121 -- Panda Platinum Internet Security
32.97% = 120 -- Computer Associates Anti-Spyware
32.69% = 119 -- ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware
32.42% = 118 -- Microsoft Windows Defender
32.14% = 117 -- SUPERAntispyware
27.47% = 100 -- Kaspersky Internet Security
24.73% = _90 -- Spybot S&D
24.45% = _89 -- Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro
19.51% = _71 -- NOD32
14.29% = _52 -- Aluria Anti-Spyware

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

you know every review for each antispyware can be different and everyone has their own opinions. Pc Mag last yr rated spyware sweeper the best and when i had it, it slowed the computer down to a crawl when it did a scan and did the same to some of my clients computers so I removed it. The following year PC Mag sweared that Spyware Doctor is the best, that one took forever to load on startup and when they did a major update it knocked off my sound and moved my computer to a crawl when it did start up and I had to do a system restore to get everything working properly again and to tell you the truth it had more false positives then any antispyware program out there. On some of my clients computers it would not allow them to logon to Windows xp the first round, they had to shut the computer down and try at least 3x to get in and forget trying to switch users, it behaved nasty there too. An uninstall of the program and everything was back to normal. I still have it on some clients computers that did not have this problem but it still loads very slow on startup and i constantly get phone calls about it, and when it expires I will remove it completly unless it hiccups some more and I will remove it then.

There is no perfect antispyware program out there. If there was we would not need anything else but the "perfect" antispyware program. That is why you need more than one and perform "safe internet" to make sure you do not get a "baddie"

Robin

 

The winner is decided by the test environment and the same winner can be a loser in another test environment. It's just a matter of luck to be a winner.