Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2003 or McAfee's VirusScan Professional 7 -Which is better?

What do you feel is the better product?

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Surfer schrieb:

What do you feel is the better product?

I don't *feel* about the products, I just *know* about facts. So try
Kaspersky oder McAfee.

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Regards, Torti

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:58:34 +0200, Torti Schlumpf
<tortischlumpf@arcor.dewrote:

>Surfer schrieb:
>
>What do you feel is the better product?
>
>I don't *feel* about the products, I just *know* about facts. So try
>Kaspersky oder McAfee.

Best scores belong to ND32:




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Angelo Lopes da Silva
Porto, Portugal

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:30:19 +0100, Angelo Lopes <my_name@yaooh.com>
wrote:

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 11:58:34 +0200, Torti Schlumpf
><tortischlumpf@arcor.dewrote:
>
>>Surfer schrieb:
>>
What do you feel is the better product?
>>
>>I don't *feel* about the products, I just *know* about facts. So try
>>Kaspersky oder McAfee.
>
>Best scores belong to ND32:
>
>
>
>

If strings of VB100 pass/fail awards are your only criteria. You
should consider other tests and criteria as well.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:05:32 GMT, null@zilch.com wrote:

<snip>

What do you feel is the better product?

I don't *feel* about the products, I just *know* about facts. So try
Kaspersky oder McAfee.
>>
>>Best scores belong to ND32:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>If strings of VB100 pass/fail awards are your only criteria. You
>should consider other tests and criteria as well.
>
Send me _useful_ links, please.
In my Firm I have VirusScan Enterprise 7.0 (140+ WS).
firewall runs Linux and have Kaspersky and Qmail.
Since I must renew our VS licenses next November, I installed KAV on
my laptop. It was a complete disaster. KAV screwed the laptop and
after a second install I find it is bloatware. It needs 30% less
resources than VS though.
Searching NGs for the problems I got with KAV, I discovered ND32,
and I am amazed! Daily updates and really important for me, in the
three machines I installed ND32 now, they keep really fast, as if no
AV software was installed there.
There's no such thing as best AVsoft. For the moment I'll keep ND32
on those 3 puters till the end of the trial.

Regards,
--
Angelo Lopes da Silva
Porto, Portugal

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:05:55 +0100, Angelo Lopes <my_name@yaooh.com>
wrote:

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:05:32 GMT, null@zilch.com wrote:
>
><snip>
>
What do you feel is the better product?

I don't *feel* about the products, I just *know* about facts. So try
Kaspersky oder McAfee.

Best scores belong to ND32:




>>
>>If strings of VB100 pass/fail awards are your only criteria. You
>>should consider other tests and criteria as well.
>>
>Send me _useful_ links, please.

Check out in particular detailed tests done at Uni Magdeburg and Uni
Hamburg:




>In my Firm I have VirusScan Enterprise 7.0 (140+ WS).
firewall runs Linux and have Kaspersky and Qmail.
>Since I must renew our VS licenses next November, I installed KAV on
>my laptop. It was a complete disaster. KAV screwed the laptop and
>after a second install I find it is bloatware. It needs 30% less
>resources than VS though.
>Searching NGs for the problems I got with KAV, I discovered ND32,
>and I am amazed! Daily updates and really important for me, in the
>three machines I installed ND32 now, they keep really fast, as if no
>AV software was installed there.
>There's no such thing as best AVsoft. For the moment I'll keep ND32
>on those 3 puters till the end of the trial.

It's true that there's no such thing as "best" for all users under all
circumstances. Also there's no test or set of tests that are "best". I
have a high regard for the McAfee scan engine which is based on the
old Dr Solly product. Also, for KAV and products that use the KAV
engine such as F-Secure. But your mileage will vary as you've
experienced with your laptop. Personally, I only use DS av scanners
so I don't have those kinds of problems :)


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

<null@zilch.comschrieb im Newsbeitrag
@4ax.com
Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:05:55 +0100, Angelo Lopes <my_name@yaooh.com>
wrote:
>
Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:05:32 GMT, null@zilch.com wrote:
>
><snip>
>
What do you feel is the better product?

I don't *feel* about the products, I just *know* about facts. So try
Kaspersky oder McAfee.

Best scores belong to ND32:




>>
>>If strings of VB100 pass/fail awards are your only criteria. You
>>should consider other tests and criteria as well.
>>
>Send me _useful_ links, please.
>
Check out in particular detailed tests done at Uni Magdeburg and Uni
Hamburg:
>

>
>
>In my Firm I have VirusScan Enterprise 7.0 (140+ WS).
firewall runs Linux and have Kaspersky and Qmail.
>Since I must renew our VS licenses next November, I installed KAV on
>my laptop. It was a complete disaster. KAV screwed the laptop and
>after a second install I find it is bloatware. It needs 30% less
>resources than VS though.
>Searching NGs for the problems I got with KAV, I discovered ND32,
>and I am amazed! Daily updates and really important for me, in the
>three machines I installed ND32 now, they keep really fast, as if no
>AV software was installed there.
>There's no such thing as best AVsoft. For the moment I'll keep ND32
>on those 3 puters till the end of the trial.
>
It's true that there's no such thing as "best" for all users under all
circumstances. Also there's no test or set of tests that are "best". I
have a high regard for the McAfee scan engine which is based on the
old Dr Solly product. Also, for KAV and products that use the KAV
engine such as F-Secure. But your mileage will vary as you've
experienced with your laptop. Personally, I only use DS av scanners
so I don't have those kinds of problems :)
>
>
Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

i use kaspersky antivirus, i've tested some other popular scanners, like
nod32. mcafee and bitdefender.
on the most tests on the web, kaspersky takes good test results, also vb
100% award.
Eset Nod 32 is a smart, very fast scanner but it didn't find as much as
kaspersky or mcafee. But in the future if Eset would upgrade an fix some
details it would be on the same line as kaspersky etc.

Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:47:37 +0200, "Tracer" <tracer@softkillers.tk>
wrote:

<snip>
>
>i use kaspersky antivirus, i've tested some other popular scanners, like
>nod32. mcafee and bitdefender.
>on the most tests on the web, kaspersky takes good test results, also vb
>100% award.
>Eset Nod 32 is a smart, very fast scanner but it didn't find as much as
>kaspersky or mcafee.

This is not what I read, but I trust much more what I read in th NGs.
Real people from the real world, fighting everyday in the field.

>But in the future if Eset would upgrade an fix some
>details it would be on the same line as kaspersky etc.
>
details Which details, pls?
--
Angelo Lopes da Silva
Porto, Portugal