Re: AV comparisons in PC Mag

On Jun 4, 10:09 pm, "C J." <no.re...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David H. Lipman <DLipman~nosp...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





From: "C J." <no.re...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Windows Live One Care should of been called "Windows Live Non Care"
With all the choices for AV software out here on the market these
days - its ultimately the end user - whose going to decide what
they're going to install and use for a AV solution.
http://www.av-comparatives.org is a site that seems to be on the up
an up - as source of reliable information about most of the products
available.

When people have asked me "What should I use for an anti-virus?", I
tell them simply: What works for me, might not work well for you.
Don't switch your current AV until you've done some hard target
research. Problem with most folks these days, is having the time.

Sure there's a lot of people who swear Norton is great - but there's
an equal number of other people who want Peter Norton to be tarred
and feathered too. LOL.

Which leads to an interesting question: Is an all in one security
suite for Firewall, Anti-virus, Spyware control and PC maintenance
needs - any better than installing and using standalone applications?
I've always been a mix and match sort of guy myself.

I have done tests on the Microsoft Engine and Signatures and I came
to my own conclusion many months ago and succeeding tests fared no
better. In my tests, whui always used NEW malware, Microsoft scored
a catch rate of 40% ~ 60%. I actually posted my test results, with
log files where available, on the Microsoft m.p.s.v News Group. When
I tested Windows Live OneCare I could NOT extract a usable log. The
web site would not let you copy from the web site and paste in a text
file or save a log file. That in itself is problematic.

I believe in max-and-matching security utilities as the all in one
suites are not good. You can always pick the best of all companies
but I guarantee that NO company has a "best in class" in all security
applications in their suite. When it comes to a Firewall
application, I think they ONLY should be on notebooks, desktops
should always behind an appliance. That appliance should be a simple
NAT Router or a more complex fully implemented Firewall appliance.

BTW: Your post "Here's the issue. . .as I see it" was quite accurate.

Hi Dave,

I've used One Care maybe about twice - if that, and I really wasn't all that
impressed with it. In fact, it claimed to have corrected some sort of
problematic\Interface or \CLSID registry entries that it uncovered during
it's PC Check Up phase. At the time I had IE7 (the last beta) installed. I
wound up having to do a "repair install" within a week after that. I'm
convinced if someone is going to use One Care regularly - to have current a
Back up of their data - along with a good known working Image of their drive
to re-install afterward.

Picking up a router makes sense to me as well. That's next on my list of
hardware goodies to acquire. I don't know how accurate this is, but I was
reading some other posts not long ago, and understood one can get a half way
decent router for a home connection - for $100.00 or less? Guess I'll have
to start looking around and see.

My folks have Norton Internet Security Suite on their HP Pavillion Desktop.
What seems hilarious to me is how the damn trial version of that ran out
almost a year ago - yet there hasn't been one virus found - or problems with
malware or Trojans on their PC. Some people just have all the luck I guess.

Not to tempt fate... but I notice Mr Butts hasn't posted in a few days.
Maybe his employers finally got tired of the complaints and fired him -- or
maybe they've denied him access to newsgroups during working hours. All we
can do is hope. :D- Hide quoted text -

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plus he has other aliases

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