For a discussion of why this report may not accurately represent the “worldwide market share” of anti-virus vendors, please see this thread.
I share your disappointment. I infer that XeroBank apparently places a low level of importance upon the quality of their customers’ relationships...
Hints about the new capabilities of Diskeeper 2011 are beginning to appear... LAS VEGAS--In its quest to keep your hard drive fully...
In 2011, I predict that Webroot will fund the inclusion of Prevx in independent comparative anti-malware assessments, so that empirical evidence...
It could happen in early 2011: AV-Comparatives will award the Best Anti-Virus Product of 2010 designation to Symantec/Norton, for a second year...
Thanks, Triple Helix: it appears that the release of Diskeeper 2011 will be occurring "soon."
In the article Internet Security Predictions for 2011: The Shape of Things to Come, Symantec predicts: Critical Infrastructure Will Come...
Does the fact that updates are still being released for Diskeeper 2010 imply that the release of Diskeeper 2011 will not occur in the near future?
A company that values its customers would, at a minimum, proactively announce a scheduled service outage. With regret, it appears that XeroBank...
Is the December 10th edition of the report the final version – or, will the testing continue through the end of this month with a final report...
Within the small security intelligentsia community, yes: Prevx appears to be a well-known brand. However, among the large general user...
The difference is about costs and cannibalization. Prevx costs money to market, to maintain, and to service as a separate brand, expenses which...
Please note that Prevx itself disagrees with such an interpretation: as the company states in the “Explain this Chart” verbiage, the statistics...
In the threats missed by other security vendors chart, Prevx is now displaying “how many infections Prevx 3.0 found yesterday, on PCs protected”...
However, given Webroot’s stated intent to “integrate” Prevx, the standalone status of Prevx may only be temporary.
The launch of xB VPN occurs at logon, not at startup. Please see the entry in the Windows Task Scheduler, and note that the trigger is “At log on...
Yes, the role of marketing is to present a company’s product in the best possible light to customers. However, empirical assertions (“the world's...
Yes, there does appear to be a lack of consistency in how anti-malware vendors measure the size of their “cloud-based threat database,” and each...
Are these numbers accurate? “40 million known malicious objects” does not seem to qualify as “the world's largest cloud-based threat database,”...
Is it odd that Webroot makes no mention of Prevx in this press release when discussing its “cloud security product for consumers”? I would have...
Two other potential considerations: (1) the “key folks” at Prevx most likely have signed a ‘non-compete’ employment contract prohibiting them from...
In a Windows environment, consider the use of the tool DirDate to modify any aspect of a file’s timestamp.
No longer in beta, Norton DNS has now been released – see: Faster, Safer Internet with Free Norton DNS.
The future of the Prevx technical development team appears to be perilous...
Keep in mind that we don’t know what percent of the company was owned by Mr. Morris and what percent was owned by other private investors. For...
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