A test of "proactive apps" dated March 2008

The following data for a few proactive apps, dated March 2008, was taken from THIS downloadable xls file which I found out about on THIS webpage.

 

Wonder why no threatfire?

 

Me too.

 

i wonder why kaspersky 7 when kaspersky 8 is about 99 frillion times better than its previous version.lol

 

There is no single free product in the test from Chip Online, btw they tested eight products (not six).

And why should you want ThreatFire for free if you are allowed to pay for Antibot?

This is the link to the original german test:
http://www.chip.de/artikel/Vergleichstest-Die-besten-Virenscanner_31527646.html

Cheers

 

I omitted the 2 lowest ranking ones {Norton 2008 & Panda 2008} because I wanted a screenie that didn't get shrunk too much, plus I am prejudiced against NAV Pandas -- I MUCH prefer USMC Koalas. (I support the right to arm bears.)

But seriously -- as to Norton Antibot's impressive showing: isn't it absolutely identically the same as Primary Response SafeConnect (PRSC)? If so, my interest in trialing PRSC has increased exponentially.

 

It is in line with my experience (I have lisences for all to play with )

TF best coverage, near zero FP

PRSC good coverage, zero FP's with my test set

Mamutu/A2 coverage between TF and PRSV, with a lot of pop-ups, but with community voting still more (unsuffucient community stats) FP's than TF

Performance of PRSC on Vista with LUA is better, because lesser threats (worms) are covered by LUA

Off topic: although not a behavioral blocker it has some behavioral aspects the HIPS of Rising is a good cross over between traditional HIPS, behavior blocking and seperate source/target protection (access control, application protection and startup control).

In combination with Rising FW, it performs as good as D+ (except recursive DNS and pseudo COM protection=elevation control), while being very silent (also the log of both is great)

By the way I bought PRSC for 30 dollars = 20 euro at the time (the only BehavBlock for Vista64 users)

 

BTW anyone has an idea which one is more smooth n lighter, TF or PRSC?

 

If we accpet it true then KAV 7 must be rather junk.

 

PRSC is lighter, when you check monitored programs, check for non greens and allow trusted programs like nvidea

TF achieves same near zero FP's and has a wider protection (I guess that is what you mean by smoother)

 

Thanks. From smoother I meant, without any glitches, occasional CPU spikes, hangs etc.

 

Norton Antibot is a clone of PRSC, but with different colors between them? TF seems to have a conflict with Firefox when I update the extensions. I have been using the Antibot program on my laptop because of that.

 

What happens when you update extensions? I haven't had any trouble with TF and extensions so far *knocking on nearby wood*.

 

It says 'Firefox could not install the file at addons.mozilla.org

because unexpected installation error. -203.

Works fine when I suspend TF and update my extensions and turn on TF back up again.

There's a few of them in the TF forum that had the same problem or problems.

 

Hmm, guess I just got lucky then, no problems with that here.

 

I have never had any problems updating FF extension with TF running either but I have heard of others who have. I think it just depends on the system. For instance I have two computers that are basically set up the same. On one computer a program called LockNote works fine with TF running. On the other computer I have to suspend TF to run LockNote.

 

@ Belgamin, thank very much for posting this and Subset(cool name), how do i traslate this website in eglish? i wanna read the full article.

 

Done....

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translat...ner_31527646.html&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

 

Use Google -- "Translate a web page" is near the bottom of that Google page.

Or use Babel.