Nope it doesn't sound like data mining to me. Here is what they collect according to Microsoft and you agree to that when MSRT is run. I think...
Microsoft is a collaborator for Virustotal so they should get info from them. From virustotal fax "In exchange for providing an antivirus...
More numbers make it look like they update more frequently :P
They should be able to do the removal with MSE/Defender with pushing the same definitions, barring a few oddball malware but I already covered...
Don't forget that OPSWAT collects data from mostly the west half of the world since the apps they used to do so are only available in English. I...
I did a bit of research on Microsoft security practices and as far as I understand -Microsoft receives samples from computers running only...
Avast still makes you register but I didn't see any nag screen besides that in Version 8 (btw I don't count advertising in gui as a nag screen,...
The problem is not it being free, problem is the quality of the free product you choose to use.
Suggestion: When the program gives an alert, instead of the orange alert window use Green (Safe) Yellowish/orange (Suspicious) Red...
Please use "Disable Protection" instead of unprotect:)
I'm not even in the industry :P [ATTACH]
With a bit of web digging you can run Zemana for free, there were tons of 1 year free promotions for Zemana last year.
You can install comodo, set sandbox level to blocked, suspress av alerts and auto quarantine, set firewall to safe mode, supress firewall alerts...
Back on youtube tests, sigh... There's no problem for me on seeing GUI, available options, how program in question responds to different...
It doesn't really matter; you use stick with what works for you even if it's old, I constantly search what will work for me while it uses new...
I very much doubt that you'll now (I can think of tons of ways to check but they'll introduce their uncertainty with them) but of course everyone...
-As said most of the BBs, HIPs, etc modules make us of a cloud these days. -Most security software will try to use hashes first, (uploading a...
Today very few security software still relies "only" on signatures (blacklisting). Most of the software introduced behavior blocker, hips, sandbox...
I would take any program that claims 100% success with a grain of salt.
Everyone to their own opinions, but: Sorry I'm not a fanboy of any software, and I see no reasons to be one. AND I do not use Kingsoft Cloud AV...
-He's not a professional, doing so-called tests for years doesn't make you one either. -The size of the sample set he is using is too small to...
Because that's version 5.10 (5.12 was made specially made for Win 8 support).
AFAIK Comodo 5.12 works with Win 8. You can get it from http://antivirus.comodo.com/windows-8/
Not in my experience. Heavy and slow as a snail.
Actually Comodo Dragon is based on Chromium while Comodo Ice Dragon is based on Firefox.
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