Re: Avast Home/Pro Updated I agree. avast! has always been a very stable and feature-rich program backed by excellent support. If only it had...
I wonder if they can afford to. There are those of us who know leaktests for what they are, but the majority of hopelessly clueless newbies have...
Offtopic: you might be interested that the Chinese are beginning to shun Western security software as well, for perhaps the same reasons (if I'm...
Nope, you can't. But if you observe a scanner over a period of time against specific families and variants, or have ever explored its weaknesses...
Have you tried right-clicking the program and choosing "Run as"?
Only for six months, though. Still, you gotta love the Chinese. They're full of great bargains, if you know where to look. ;D
Perhaps I should take a leaf out of IBK's book and make a nice tabulated summary of my results. Judging by how many followers AV-Comparatives...
That would depend very heavily on whether you have any ability to verify that a file you're looking at is a virus or not (behavior analysis,...
I beg to differ. The discussion so far seems to be going well between people who have a clue as to what they're talking about... at least until...
Thanks for the heads-up. I've actually been running around "naked" with nothing more than an antivirus after uninstalling ThreatFire... looks like...
It's a pity then that he has no clue where the biggest hole in his setup is...
Very true. The most you can hope for is to piss off the guy trying to reverse your code as much as possible, but at the end of the day there is no...
avast! scores 50-60% on average on my samples, compared to AVG's 92-95% and Avira's near-perfect scores. It's nice to see that someone else is...
Well, the way I see it, there's different kinds of "glory". One of those kinds are as you mention: conquering the challenge of cleaning a complex...
I'm not too sure about most of your questions, but I'd just like to chime in something here. Not performing program updates with Avira is a big...
Once a file gets submitted to VT, every vendor gets a copy of it. It's then up to them whether to inspect the files or not.
There's detecting a threat before and after it activates. If it's the prior case, cleaning doesn't come into the equation at all: you just delete...
I have four installed on my machine right now for testing purposes, but using more than one antivirus is basically a game of Russian roulette...
Without a copy of the sample that DrWeb are talking about, it's impossible to know for sure. Though I personally smell something fishy about their...
Even the free version has been terribly effective against Zlob/Delflob domains, and several others. Zlob/Delflob in particular is especially...
That's the key question, isn't it? What is "community protection"? The term itself is a misnomer, as it doesn't offer any protection. All it...
And deny us the pleasure of seeing what kind of response ESET finally comes up with? That'd be a shame, don't you think?
That the OP has nothing to gain and is going to end up very much worse off if these events have not transpired is a fact. That the only ESET...
You're right; I don't have "facts", only facts, which were given in post 46. Now you can disagree with them if you wish, but let's not insult...
Exactly. Which is why those products that rely exclusively on their "cutting-edge" heuristics are nothing but a farce. Good protection consists of...
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