VanguardLH wrote:

>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.

It's hard for me to believe Kaspersky and Eset are ranked so low on
that chart.  Then there are ones like ULIS, Kromtech, Avetix rated
higher than any!
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