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hubert_cumberdale

being related to waynes world would be amazing

dogmaryxx

hubert_cumberdale wrote: »

apologises for not reading that it is in fact the magazine not the shop i think they may be related tho

Totally different companies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_World_(magazine

JJ_Egan

http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/dynamic-tests

Is a review of the ongoing Dynamic tests due for full release December .
Look at the three test and it shows varying performance each month .

Looking at the tests i would throw out anything that got below 95 %
in any test .

That would throw out Avast ,AVG ,Bit Defender , Kingsoft , Norman ,
Panda , PC Tools , Trend Micro .


jje

aliEnRIK

JJ_Egan wrote: »

http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/dynamic-tests

Is a review of the ongoing Dynamic tests due for full release December .
Look at the three test and it shows varying performance each month .

Looking at the tests i would throw out anything that got below 95 %
in any test .

That would throw out Avast ,AVG ,Bit Defender , Kingsoft , Norman ,
Panda , PC Tools , Trend Micro .


jje

Using FIREFOX with the NOSCRIPT plugin would probably block 100% of those. Which would make the test a tad useless

JJ_Egan

Only irrelevant if all the world used FF and No Script .Fat chance of that i think .
The main reason fr security products is error between chair and keyboard.

jje

aliEnRIK

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Only irrelevant if all the world used FF and No Script .Fat chance of that i think .


jje

I agree that most dont. But claiming that avs are the ONLY line of defence and so all statistics should be based on them simply isnt true
If people completely rely on them, they WILL come unstuck at some point

CathWales

I have Microsoft Security Essentials running on my laptop and it is scheduled to automatically run a full scan every Sundy 10pm, but now and again (now for example) the security protected icon goes from green to orange and i get a message telling me I haven't scanned my laptop in a while. i can't see how else to configure the settings, but don't know why it comes up with this message every week or so?

JJ_Egan

I haven't scanned my laptop in a while Does it actually carry out the scan .Is the machine switched on on the date and time its scheduled to run . jje

GunJack

thing is, with all these tests, it all depends on what the test malware samples are....now if the testing organisations got together and combined all their sample sets, we may get a much more accurate set of results - unfortunately, I believe it'll never happen

hansi

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I wouldnt trust PC World for anything

Hear, hear. They probably only list the ones they make most profit from:mad: