Best Security Suite

no reason to go to steganos,

you get less of kaspersky, for more or similar amount of money right?

plus you will get worse support with steganos, stick to the original product is my opinion.

 

No offense here, but doesnt that kind of go against your orginal thoughts about F-Secure.

 

not at all, no offence taken...

f-secure replys to emails in about the same time as kaspersky, f-secure has deepguard and a better firewall in my opinion, and f-secure is cheaper, alot cheaper if you have more than one machine, i just prefer the overall package when compared.

depends what one prefers.

 

true, I am using Nod and OA beta on the main, and Dr. Web on the laptop. Got out of the Avira suite stuff.

 

are you sure, you seem to try loads? lol

why did you stop using it, didnt you get a free licence for it or something for beta testing?

 

Been testing OA since the start. My avatar changes more then my software. Avira is a good product but to me is missing key components to be considered a suite. Eset should be before to long. Heck OA with Kasperskys AV is just about a suite. And Dr. Web for a laptop just cant honestly be beat.

 

I've been flitting from one to the other recently. I like F-Secure the best, but the 2006 version didn't work well on my machine, so I installed KIS, which I also think is excellent, but although the iSwift and iChecker technology is great, definitely reduces scanning times, and boot up time is very quick, the Pro-Active Defence pop ups are frequent and annoying, and this is the one thing that makes KIS just ever so slightly imperfect. I tried Norton IS 2007 the other day, and it had an extremely compromising effect on boot up times, which I couldn't tolerate, so that had to go. I am now trying FSIS 2007 for a second time, and although boot up time is slightly slower than with KIS, I find that navigating round Windows, and web browsing is slightly quicker, and it also seems to allow my internet connection to be faster, for some reason, especially noticeable when downloading torrents. I did have a problem with the Full System Scan, in that it would freeze after about 15 minutes. I contracted FS Support, and they sent me a newer version (fs2007sp1), but it's still the same, however, I have since found that the problem is only evident with the spyware scan, and is probably due to a conflict somewhere, so I just use the rootkit and hard drive scans, and stick to SuperAntiSpyware for my spyware scans.

All in all, my personal favourite is FSIS, closely followed by KIS.

 

Changing my opinion.
Did a new test round
My opinion:

1. KIS 6.0.2.***
2. NIS 2007 ( 10.2)
3. BullGuard 7
4. ZASS 7 (302)
5. Trend Micro 2007 (15.3)


1. KIS 6

* Great protection
* Fast
* great support
* great forum
* good firewall
* good Anti spam

2. NIS 2007

* great protection ( NIS thinks for you)
* pretty fast
* support less good
* no forum
* firewall good
* antispam not that good

3. BullGuard 7

* great protection
* very fast
* great support
* simple forum
* firewall very good
* antispam very good

4. ZASS 7

* good protection ( potentially best protection)
* slow boot up, but than it's fast
* support is good
* forum is good
* firewall the best
* antispam ( not tested, didn't work on mu Outlook 2007 dutch version)

5. Trend 2007

* good protection
* pretty fast
* great support
* no forum
* good firewall
* great antispam

This is my opinion.
Offcourse are there several more good suites as well.
F-Secure veeeeery slow
Panda ( new version is rather good)
NOD32 can't wait for the suite

But for now KIS is best. There are some new versions and updates and upgrades coming so it will only get better.

 

One of these days, I'd love to see someone ask: "What security suite (or firewall, or AV, or AS, etc.) is the best that you don't use?"

Should at least temper a few fanboy responses.

 

norton is best here......only problem is their support and selfish license policies....

 

Mine has now also changed. I couldn't get anywhere with F-Secure, which wouldn't scan properly even on a clean installation of Windows. I thought I could live with it, by using an alternative spyware scanner, but I found I was spending more time than was healthy, trying to get it to work. Support was quite fast, but they couldn't come up with a solution, and merely kept suggesting reinstalls and removal of other programs. F-Secure is great when it works, but there seems to be too many reasons for it not to work, so therefore, I can't recommend it any more.

I am now using KIS, which is still annoying, but works well and is fast, and would be interested to try the NOD32 suite when it comes along.

 

Changing my opinion.
Did a new test round
My opinion:

1. BiDefender 10.2

2. KIS 6.0.2.***
3. NIS 2007 ( 10.2)
4. ZASS 7 (302)
5. Trend Micro 2007 (15.3)


1. BitDefender 10.2

* Great protection
* Fast
* great support
* best forum
* good firewall
* good Anti spam

2. KIS 6

* Great protection
* Fast
* great support
* great forum
* good firewall
* good Anti spam

3. NIS 2007

* great protection ( NIS thinks for you)
* pretty fast
* support less good
* no forum
* firewall good
* antispam not that good


4. ZASS 7

* good protection ( potentially best protection)
* slow boot up, but than it's fast
* support is good
* forum is good
* firewall the best
* antispam ( not tested, didn't work on mu Outlook 2007 dutch version)

5. Trend 2007

* good protection
* pretty fast
* great support
* no forum
* good firewall
* great antispam

This is my opinion.
Offcourse are there several more good suites as well.
F-Secure veeeeery slow
Panda ( new version is rather good)
NOD32 can't wait for the suite

But for now BitDefender is best. BitDefender 11 is on its way so it will even be better soon

 

from what i know bitdefender doesn't have an official forum *yet*

 

Of course if you ask to them, they obviously say "may be" or "let's see"... they have no specific interest in saying "YES"...

If the heuristic update will be "signature" based, KAV OEM will get the new signature updates... of course, if changes are also required to the level of the engine than it could take a bit longer for KAV SDK users to update their packages (i.e. it requires the release of a new build package)

The end result is that "signature based" detection should be the same for KAV and SDK KAV... as it is now... another story is with HIPS and other functions where, for example, KAV has the proprietary PDM and ZASS has the OSfirewall.

Fax

 

Hi there OP Sjoeii;

Your posts are starting to look like Matousec's bug listing, only with positive comments. My index finger starting to ache from rolling a mouse wheel

Cheers.