Comments on: Antivirus Test http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:51:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sensibleguy http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/#comment-225437 sensibleguy Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:03:58 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=269#comment-225437 actually we cant trust any antivirus software because viruses are getting into pc still when an antivirus software is still installed. actually we cant trust any antivirus software because viruses are getting into pc still when an antivirus software is still installed.

]]> By: kurt http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/#comment-780 kurt Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:52:36 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=269#comment-780 it's difficult to use the test as a descriminator for which products you can trust and which ones you can't when all the products had such similar scores... combined with the question of how many of the samples really were viruses, it's impossible to tell which one really had the best score and by what margin did others really fall short... it’s difficult to use the test as a descriminator for which products you can trust and which ones you can’t when all the products had such similar scores… combined with the question of how many of the samples really were viruses, it’s impossible to tell which one really had the best score and by what margin did others really fall short…

]]> By: Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/#comment-776 Martin Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:18:55 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=269#comment-776 I agree with you that the results are not the non plus ultra but they probably help you in your decision which you should use and trust. I agree with you that the results are not the non plus ultra but they probably help you in your decision which you should use and trust.

]]> By: rwkohio http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/#comment-771 rwkohio Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:29:16 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=269#comment-771 I use AVG Free, NOD32 and Avast! at home (on different PCs) and they all seem to be effective. One nice feature with Avast! is that you can do a boot-time scan, which can help catch some trojans before they get loaded into memory. I use AVG Free, NOD32 and Avast! at home (on different PCs) and they all seem to be effective. One nice feature with Avast! is that you can do a boot-time scan, which can help catch some trojans before they get loaded into memory.

]]> By: kurt http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/#comment-770 kurt Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:56:26 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=269#comment-770 unfortunately the test is probably worthless... with only 10,000 samples they've sampled at most about 7% of the virus population, and there's no way to tell if that sample is representative of the whole virus population (in fact there's little reason to believe there is such a thing as a 'representative sample' in this context)... further, the documentation for the test gives no information on how the samples were validated (just because a virus scanner calls something a virus doesn't mean it really is one)... there's a great deal of so-called scanner fodder out there that doesn't actually self-replicate... many anti-virus tests are invalid on these two points alone... few people/organizations have the resources to do proper anti-virus testing, and without proper methods the results are suspect at best... unfortunately the test is probably worthless… with only 10,000 samples they’ve sampled at most about 7% of the virus population, and there’s no way to tell if that sample is representative of the whole virus population (in fact there’s little reason to believe there is such a thing as a ‘representative sample’ in this context)…

further, the documentation for the test gives no information on how the samples were validated (just because a virus scanner calls something a virus doesn’t mean it really is one)… there’s a great deal of so-called scanner fodder out there that doesn’t actually self-replicate…

many anti-virus tests are invalid on these two points alone… few people/organizations have the resources to do proper anti-virus testing, and without proper methods the results are suspect at best…

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