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From: Leythos on 1 Apr 2010 18:01 In article <A0FEA0F4-959C-46A9-BC17-E0263F5D0698(a)microsoft.com>, "db" says... > norton is notorious of being > a resource hog on personal > computers. > You are repeating old data/experiences and not showing anything relative to the current releases. Try and update your knowledge base before you reply in technical groups. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: David H. Lipman on 1 Apr 2010 18:14 From: "LD55ZRA" <LD55ZRA(a)discussions.microsoft.com> | David H. Lipman wrote: >>Then why did Avast wrongfully declare the VBS:Zulu on Microsoft wen pages ~11/06 and >>took >>2 months to correct the False Positive ? >>Avast also misses many new forms of malware that AntiVir catches. | No it didn't and I haven't seen it. Seen what ? -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: LD55ZRA on 1 Apr 2010 21:22 "David H. Lipman" wrote: > > From: "LD55ZRA" <LD55ZRA(a)discussions.microsoft.com> > > Seen what ? That "Avast also misses many new forms of malware that AntiVir catches" whether it is from personal experiences or from "official" public reports. Also your biased claim of 2 months time lag to correct something by Avast.
From: David H. Lipman on 1 Apr 2010 21:52 From: "LD55ZRA" <LD55ZRA(a)discussions.microsoft.com> | "David H. Lipman" wrote: >> From: "LD55ZRA" <LD55ZRA(a)discussions.microsoft.com> >> Seen what ? | That "Avast also misses many new forms of malware that AntiVir | catches" whether it is from personal experiences or from | "official" public reports. | Also your biased claim of 2 months time lag to correct something | by Avast. Not a claim, a fact and its documented. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=24061.0 I reported it to Alwil 10/2/06 it was fixed by the end of November '06. If you handled the volume of malware I see per month, you might just get a clue. Even if Avast's catch rate was really good, their rating would drop by the fact it took two months to correct a False Positive declaration. The fact is it is good, but not as good as Avira's catch rate. I put Alwil above many others like McAfee, Symantec, CA, Trend Micro but not above AntiVir. I may consider the improvements of MSE to be on par with Alwil. But I know where you are coming from based upon your acrid posts against many really good MVPs, "piggy", tsk, tsk, tsk.... -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Carmel on 2 Apr 2010 05:29
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:01:52 -0400, Leythos <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> articulated: > You are repeating old data/experiences and not showing anything > relative to the current releases. Try and update your knowledge base > before you reply in technical groups. Personally, I would be ecstatic if he would simply update his posting style. The margins he has set for his posts are ridiculous. He even splits sentences into multiple paragraphs. Since we are recommending AV programs here, I think that 'ClamAV' is worth a mention. It is the most used AV program in the *.nix and *BSD* theater. The are also several third party signature writers who freely supply their databases for use with ClamAV. Auxiliary programs to install these supplemental databases are also available. I know, because I am the author on one such program. -- Carmel Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ To hell with the Prime Directive; Let's _K_I_L_L_ something! |