badgolferman wrote:

> http://www.360safe.com/internet-security.html
> 
> AV Comparatives really seems to like this product and have awarded it
> Advanced+ all year long in several categories.  By contrast avast!
> seems to have hit the skids in their tests.  Does anyone use this
> product?
> 
> http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php

You'll see Symantec/Norton hasn't been listed there for awhile.  They
didn't kowtow to av-comparatives demands for ransoming the test results
(pay up or we wont show our results for you).  There was some other AV
company that wouldn't pay the ransom, er, testing fees (although the
product got tested but they wouldn't publish) but it's been too long to
remember which one that was.

I also like to reference https://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml
(click on the pic to enlarge it, and click again on the image to enlarge
that) to give a feeling of which products are best on both proactive and
retroactive protection.

BitDefender ranks better than Qihoo; however, I still don't like some of
their rude behaviors in their freeware version.
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