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DTL Anti-Virus Protection report, Jul-Sep 2014

Berryracer

Berryracer

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All reports
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/

Enterprise Anti-Virus Protection
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/DTL_2014_Q3_Ent.1.0.pdf

Small Business Anti-Virus Protection
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/DTL_2014_Q3_SMB.1.0.pdf

Home Anti-Virus Protection
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/DTL_2014_Q3_Home.1.0.pdf
(Guest product: Qihoo 360 360Safe Internet Security)

FAQs
Please see individual reports, APPENDIX B: FAQS and Three anti-virus testing questions/accusations.

Summary for Home Products:

 
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berryracer said:
All reports
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/

Enterprise Anti-Virus Protection
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/DTL_2014_Q3_Ent.1.0.pdf

Small Business Anti-Virus Protection
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/DTL_2014_Q3_SMB.1.0.pdf

Home Anti-Virus Protection
http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/DTL_2014_Q3_Home.1.0.pdf
(Guest product: Qihoo 360 360Safe Internet Security)

FAQs
Please see individual reports, APPENDIX B: FAQS and Three anti-virus testing questions/accusations.

Summary for Home Products:

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Yay! Confirms my luv and respect for Norton are justified! Plus, I never even have to look at it....cept, once in a while to clear the log.

I think I've never bought Russian software. But I know Kaspersky has always been right up there.

Wut does Putin run???? Is Kaspersky the official choice of the KGB?😎
 
Virgorising said:
Yay! Confirms my luv and respect for Norton are justified! Plus, I never even have to look at it....cept, once in a while to clear the log.

I think I've never bought Russian software. But I know Kaspersky has always been right up there.

Wut does Putin run???? Is Kaspersky the official choice of the KGB?😎
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As good as they do in the virus tests, I have a license for 3 PCs for 2 years that I never use, that's for both Kaspersky Antivirus and Internet Security, bought them not knowing that they will bring my Alienware 18 to a crawl and make it beg for mercy from the Mars aliens, thus I use my NOD32 AV which i'm happy with
 
berryracer said:
As good as they do in the virus tests, I have a license for 3 PCs for 2 years that I never use, that's for both Kaspersky Antivirus and Internet Security, bought them not knowing that they will bring my Alienware 18 to a crawl and make it beg for mercy from the Mars aliens, thus I use my NOD32 AV which i'm happy with
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😵 I never knew Kaspersky was a resource hog!!!! For me, that would be a deal breaker. Not Mars aliens....KGB aliens.😉

(I have an a Alienware lappy; it's older now, haven't used it for very long time, but I liked it a lot. It has blue eyes.)
 
Virgorising said:
😵 I never knew Kaspersky was a resource hog!!!! For me, that would be a deal breaker. Not Mars aliens....KGB aliens.😉

(I have an a Alienware lappy; it's older now, haven't used it for very long time, but I liked it a lot. It has blue eyes.)
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strange that you haven't, McAfee and Kaspersky are the heaviest antivirus programs in the world. While they have improved drastically over the past few years, compared to the competition, they still leave a heavy footprint. When I install KAV or KIS, I feel like I downgraded my internet due to their heavy HTTP checking and downgraded my SSD to an HDD and downgraded my i7 CPU to an i3, that's how bad it is.

Example, with any AV installed, if I double click on NERO PLATINUM SUITE 2015 to install it, the setup will start extracting the files immediately and launch.....

with KAV installed, it waits for like 6 to 7 seconds then decides to launch, I think what it does it's scanning the entire file contents before beginning to extract. which is really dumb because let's say the EXE had a virus, upon extraction/file access, any AV would catch the file immediately so this initial scanning is just useless. That's just one example.........it's an elephant
 
Do you guys actually ever have your AV detect a virus? I never have in almost 20 years of PC's.

And other peoples PC's that I have had to clean malware off of, were all running AV software.

Much ado about nothing...IMO.
 
berryracer said:
strange that you haven't, McAfee and Kaspersky are the heaviest antivirus programs in the world.
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Nah, not strange....cause I never bought or ran either one! Also apps change build by build. that is a given. Way back in the day, it was Norton known to be uber resource hog. And some people are still stuck in that reality conviction.
 
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WilliamM2 said:
Do you guys actually ever have your AV detect a virus? I never have in almost 20 years of PC's.

And other peoples PC's that I have had to clean malware off of, were all running AV software.

Much ado about nothing...IMO.
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Chacun a son gout.:sneaky:

And, correlation does not imply causation....or the lack thereof.
 
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WilliamM2 said:
Do you guys actually ever have your AV detect a virus? I never have in almost 20 years of PC's.

And other peoples PC's that I have had to clean malware off of, were all running AV software.

Much ado about nothing...IMO.
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to be honest, I agree with you, I have never had a virus even caught since I am a safe user, all my software are legit (no cracks or torrents), and clients I fix PCs for always have an Antivirus like Kaspersky or AVG, you name it. It's usually user education which is best to not click on every freakin' thing they see like "click here to run a scan and make your PC faster" or blindly agree to everything when installing a program. Still, I like reading these reports to know where does my AV stand against the competition.
 
WilliamM2 said:
Do you guys actually ever have your AV detect a virus? I never have in almost 20 years of PC's.

And other peoples PC's that I have had to clean malware off of, were all running AV software.

Much ado about nothing...IMO.
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I stuck Bitdefender Free on my aunts computer and my uncle doesn't know jack about computers and Bitdefender caught like 19 viruses.
 
I use Avast regularly. It competes so well I just can't justify the cost of paid antivirus software (Outside of Malwarebyte premium)
 
WilliamM2 said:
It was a yes or no question.😵
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That's not what I got. I got your conclusion was--- some ostensible proof of what you believe: cause U found insects in the system in question which was also running an AV, ergo the AV was useless.

To YOU, it was a yes or no question---actually, a black and white conviction/phenomenon-, not a question---not to me, given the infinite number of variables possible in the situation in question.

And so, I stand by my comments.()🙂
 
John Connor said:
My uncle is VERY computer illiterate.
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Bingo! How much we know holistically about this tehcnology impacts everything....including the efficacy of any given app. But that so many insects were detected and got trapped despite what he don know....was a big deal.
 
For me I'm just using Sandboxie and scanning files I download. I had to get rid of Bitdefender Free because it didn't play nice with a game mod. But I'm thinking of removing the game mod and putting Bitdefender free back on as a second level of protection.
 
I bought Kaspersky Internet Security a couple of weeks ago during a half-price sale, and it runs unobtrusively in the background if you go into its control panel and turn off all the useless stuff like automatic program scanning. I bought it because the trial version found a bunch of adware that Malwarebytes Pro had missed. Made me wonder if it might miss something more serious. Still using MB Pro since the two programs seem to co-exist without problems.
 
jkauff said:
I bought Kaspersky Internet Security a couple of weeks ago during a half-price sale, and it runs unobtrusively in the background if you go into its control panel and turn off all the useless stuff like automatic program scanning. I bought it because the trial version found a bunch of adware that Malwarebytes Pro had missed. Made me wonder if it might miss something more serious. Still using MB Pro since the two programs seem to co-exist without problems.
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Interesting! Yes, MBAM runs flawlessly in concert with all other protection apps. Tho I no longer run it in real time cause they removed options I liked and need in the last build of the pro, they now insist you do everything their way.... so I rolled it back to the free.
 
jkauff said:
I bought Kaspersky Internet Security a couple of weeks ago during a half-price sale, and it runs unobtrusively in the background if you go into its control panel and turn off all the useless stuff like automatic program scanning. I bought it because the trial version found a bunch of adware that Malwarebytes Pro had missed. Made me wonder if it might miss something more serious. Still using MB Pro since the two programs seem to co-exist without problems.
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You should have ran Super antispyware. I run that after a malwarebytes scan.

You shouldn't use two anti-virus software products at the same time as they can work against each other.
 
John Connor said:
You should have ran Super antispyware. I run that after a malwarebytes scan.

You shouldn't use two anti-virus software products at the same time as they can work against each other.
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:thumbsup:

Yep....must distinguish between AV apps and antimalwares apps. Only run one of the former.
 
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