I have said often in this forum that all AVs will go to zero and $3.99 is getting close.
There is never a free lunch. They will upsell and possibly sell your browser activity to firms for profit. Even paid versions upsell and some a...
From an empirical standpoint we could never know the efficacy of any AV test. So all debates are ultimately speculation. I don't really care about...
Great impact? Not with me because it depends much on your machine. My own testing (and I have tested for decades) shows far different results than...
Around here- yup.
Gee- I never thought that recommending a daily image backup would be that contentious. I do what works for me, and as a main player in the...
100%. I don't think that an AV is your first line of defense and I have stated that on this forum for over a decade. The first line of defense is...
You are right- it must be keeping records. I just did the scan again on my desktop and what took 2:46 took 1:34 four hours later for the same...
On Windows 10 desktop with slower HD, quick scan took 2:46 and reported 22,333 files scanned. On Windows 11 laptop (super fast everything), quick...
Never ever and that does not sound good.
Agreed. Its better to possibly have one scamming you instead of two.
Images are they key to everything and are actually the best AV there is. Something went haywire a few weeks ago and my main computer slowed to a...
Totally correct. FPs can destroy your rig on a far greater probability scale than any malware. Testers should stress this far more than they do in...
The real question is what is it sending?
What tests are you looking at? AV Comparatives has solid results for ESET.
And some of the variables may not be disclosed and/or structured to create a certain known outcome. There are simply many conflicts of interest in...
100%. There is often significant variance in results that cannot explained by standard deviation alone. Methodology, selected malware, possible...
It is a total problem and it is all that differentiates them in my book. I use Defender and it has very few FPs.
Both camps cannot be right since they are contradictory. So there must be a variable to explain it. I have Panda, but it slowed down my machine...
It does work well and the folders left on my machine were empty as you said.
One on the best analogies I have ever heard- congrats! And at least I don't need to uninstall WD. The rest are problematic and is one of the...
I use Defender but for me, the ultimate AV is a system image created daily as I have said in this forum for years. Yes, I am cautious since I have...
Probably many do badly.
It has great detection rates according to AV Comparatives but also one of the highest false positive rates. Just look at the test data and make a...
And this: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-warns-that-kaspersky-poses-national-security-risk
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