Basically yes. The chances that a sample gets "in-the-wild" is very limited. In the past it happened only a few times. Depending on the...
The problem with the current release of a2 is that there not really that much positive to tell about (just putting it in nice words. ;)). Overall...
This statement is wrong. If you check other AV tests like those from av-test.org you will find out that NOD32 is also doing there an excellent job...
If I understand it right you never used BOClean? I think you misunderstood the concept of BOClean. BOClean is a pretty simple scanner. It runs in...
I bought AVK when GDATA introduced it with a second scan engine (RAV) a few years ago. Over the time I came to the conclusion not to recommend it...
Because VB tests are serious and focus on matters that really count? I don't want to repeat all the discussions about the quality of tests...
For an antitrojan scanner the following other important features are: memory scanning - this is required in cases the unpacking fails or the...
"Unpacking" is one of the important features of a scanner. Over the past years all scanners (av or at) improved their detection capabilities of...
The number of signatures is meaningless and does not tell you anything about the quality of the scanner or its ability to detect malware. wizard
RAV is history. Microsoft bought the company a while ago and stopped selling RAV. Yes there are still updates available but most of the RAV staff...
The heuristic of F-Prot is mainly focusing on Win32 viruses while the advanced heuristic of NOD32 is focusing on worms. So actually you can't...
The number of signatures doesn't say anything about the detection quality of a program. How good or bad a program is in terms of detection you...
That reminds me that Microsoft had already once tried to step into the antivirus market with a MS DOS product and failed. We will see if their...
This is not suprising at all because to have a proper heuristic engine for detecting backdoor trojan a good unpacking engine is required. This is...
I use RegRun since ages. The biggest advantage of RegRun compared to other programs is that you also can define additional registry keys to be...
"Strong" signatures makes it just harder for the scriptkiddies but not impossible. I think a good combination out of multiple products can also be...
Yes you can use it for free for one year. Like you can use other programs for free for normally 30 days on a trial basis. What etrust offers is...
etrust7 I do not count as freeware. It is a one-year trial version. But anyhow you can have a look at the statistics: Norton AV:...
No antivirus program is able to detect all existing viruses. Therefore changing your current av software might not be the best idea especially if...
Both programs are for sure not the worst but IMHO there are some better programs available. wizard
I've tried the "VBS test". All the script does is open a message box which is far away from being anything malicious. So any alert of an av...
Can you give me some more information please? Which antivirus program and with which VBS malware did you test it? wizard
Do you know how often it happens that a zoo malware samples gets ITW and spreads widely? When I look for example at the ITW threats that McAfee...
I removed the uploaded file. This one is a variant of the Agobot Backdoor. NOD32 detects with Advanced Heuristics as "probably unknown NewHeur_PE...
Let's get to the paranoid dicussion. ;D First let's go to the facts: NOD32 performes extremely well on all malware that is currently spreading -...
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