BitDefender is lucky that this didn't happen the day AV-Comparatives froze their signatures for the Febraury test :wacko: BitDefender should do...
oops, I misread the February 2009 report as February 2010. :-[ In the August 2009 report Avira reduced the number of FPs but other popular...
Actually if you see the complete AV-comparative report you will find that Avira had about the same number of FPs as other 4 products and about 40%...
Antivir gives me a beep when the guard detects something.
You missed the option to scan archives in realtime.
Unless the script blocker does heuristic detection, I doubt it will detect someting not detected by the web shield and the standard shield.
Windows firewall is very easy to bypass because Microsoft documents how :D http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366453(VS.85).aspx (or you...
I think AV-comparatives should use a formula like internal score = % detected - k*number of FP where k is an arbitrary number and then base...
I use this program http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=1
People should ignore the false positives in the summary and go to the False positive section for the actual numbers. It goes directly from few...
How is showing a video different from linking to some VirusTotal results? It's still a small number of samples. (one or few sample(s) do no tell...
Both Scanner and Guard to High.
If your motherboard uses DDR then it won't support DDR2. You should buy DDR400. If you buy a slower one it will slow down the other modules.
Just rd D:\autorun.inf will delete them too. You don't need "magic" paths to delete a folder. It's well known that creating an autorun.inf folder...
1 means that the security center won't notify you if it cannot recognize the AV or it's disabled. 0 is the default value.
Can you confirm your results with another rootkit scanner?
Rootkit Hook Analyzer first shows me 26 (5 for SPTD) hooked functions, after enabling real-time protection and rebooting shows me 24. Unlike the...
Did you try disabling the self-protection? (General -> Security -> Protect AntiVir processes from unwanted termination)
I doubt that the paid version of Avira could get better results. The mail and web scanners won't help to desinfect a system. The other...
What's wrong with 127.0.0.1 localhost? That's the default host entry.
Both avast and AVG have an "resident shield" = real-time scanning of files. Avast Free doesn't have scheduled scans. That is a feature of the...
Unless you are talking about PlaceboAV, most antivirus have higher trojan detection rates than dedicated products. Often AV have higher spyware...
Most HIPS allow you to disable features that you don't want and password-protect the rules.
Avira Free has very good signature and proactive detection rates and it is not heavy. Updates are frequent (every ~2 hours but you need to create...
Packed executables aren't unpacked by the user, they unpack to the memory during execution. Any HIPS with execution control will stop them, not...
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