Antivir PE

http://www.pcqanda.com/dcforum/computer/49842.html

 

Sorry what's exactly your question?

wizard

 

my Q. is does it povide a better protection - a bigger number of viruses detected- than the famolus free Grisoft's AVG6 or Alwil's Avast32 ??
what about its famous reputation of false positives??

 

Although Antivir PE doesn't show up here, this is a good place to get comparative information.
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?table
A little info here.
http://www.av-test.org/online/sites/os03.php3?js=0&test=2002-01
A little history.
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/
Free AVs is not my forte', but you see with some looking into various tests done by independant testers, you can get some pretty good ideas about how well a product does. I am always wary of any bias showing in the testers, as money is an obvious influence in places like CNet and ZD Net unfortunately.

 

The software has a lot of disadvantages:
- no heuristic (yes there is a macro heuristic but IMHO this is not good)
- no unpacking features
- you have to update the whole program (~4 MByte)
- bad detection of complex (polymorphic, metamorphic) malware

I would recommend to use a real good commercial anti virus product like DrWeb32, KAV or NOD32.

wizard