fgagnon wrote:Kasperski AV may be very good; but it's not even in the top ten in
this report for 2006 AV products. ;)
Bottom line:
There are many excellent products available, but in the end the most important thing is to use one and keep it updated.
thank you mf but
i want tell you about some thing
1- Kaspersky not in the list ! how can i say he good or bad if he not there in this site
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2- are you know how many anty virus programs use the search engine Kaspersky
like:
fsecure,dr web,h+bedv,and more..... why ?
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3-if u want see all test for top 10 anty virus see it:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.ht ... rview.html
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http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/def ... =72&mnu=72
2-16 April 2005
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The test was made on 02-16 April 2005, using Windows XP Professional SP1 on a P4 2600 Mhz, 512MB DDRAM.
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All programs tested had the latest versions, upgrades and updates and they were tested using their full scanning capabilities e.g. heuristics, full scan etc. The default settings of each program were not used, in order for each program to achieve its maximum detection rate. Because of this, there is a possibility for the tested programs to detect a few false positives.
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The 91202 virus samples were chosen using VS2000 according to Kaspersky, F-Prot, RAV, Nod32, Dr.Web, Sweep, BitDefender and McAfee antivirus programs. Each virus sample was unique by virus name, meaning that AT LEAST 1 antivirus program detected it as a new unique virus (by virus name).
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ALL virus samples were unpacked and the only samples that were kept were the ones that were packed using external-dos-packers (that means not winzip, winrar, winace etc).
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The virus samples had the correct file extension using a special program (Renexts) and were unique, according to checksum32 filesize.
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Most of the virus samples used were not previously replicated at the time the test was made, which means that some of them, although probably only a few, may be false positives. The procedure of testing each and every virus sample is still under process.
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The program PER was not tested because there was no english demo version available.
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The programs Extendia AVK , BOClean , VET , Titan , RisingAV and Freedom were not tested because there was no demo version available.
* The program InVircible did not include a "typical" scanner-function and could not be tested.
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The program V-Catch checks only mail accounts and could not be tested.
The following file types were used.
BAT, ΒΙΝ, CLA, CLASS, CLS, COM, CSC, DAT, DOC, ELF, EML, EXE, HLP, HQX, HTA, HTM, IMG, INF, INI, JS, MAC, MDB, MSG, OLE, PHP, PIF, PL, PPT, PRC, REG, SCR, SH, SHS, SMM, STI, TD0, TPU, VBA, VBS, WBT, XLS, XMI, XML.
The virus samples were divided into these categories, according to the type of the virus :
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File = BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Palm, OS2, Unix, BinaryImage, BAS viruses, MenuetOS viruses.
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MS-DOS = MS-DOS and HLL*. viruses.
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Windows = Win.*.* viruses.
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Macro = Macro and Formula viruses.
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Malware = Adware, DoS, Constructors, Exploit, Flooders, Nukers, Sniffers, Spoofers, Virus Construction Tools, Virus Tools, Droppers, PolyEngines.
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Script = BAT, Corel, HTML, Java, Scripts, VBS, WBS, Worms, PHP, Perl viruses.
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Trojans-Backdoors = Trojan and Backdoor viruses.
Rank
1. Kaspersky Personal Pro version 5.0.20 - 99.28%
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/def ... =69&mnu=69
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Like to think of it as frugal 
. Still have the mcafee that comes free with hotmail but need something else for rest of computer. Any suggestions? Please 
Thanks
Feel better now that I have some protection. 
