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<blockquote data-quote="Jaspion" data-source="post: 173730" data-attributes="member: 8794">Thanks everybody for your shared opinions. This has been indeed a productive continuation to the original discussion started in this thread,and it&#039;s good that no one has broken this great combo with personal attacks. After all, we&#039;re all here to learn and share knowledge.At this point, one thing still bothers me. I suspect this is a very important issue that has been largely overlooked here. It is the case for Virtual Machine tests in evaluating antivirus/antimalware solutions.If n.nvt and Littlebits are correct, VMs do not represent real live machines well enough because the virtual system doesn&#039;t have the same level of access to the machine&#039;s resources, meaning the AV also doesn&#039;t have access to all the resources it needs to work properly. Is that correct? Because this would mean that so many users here doing VM tests are just doing little more than playing a type of video-game: it&#039;s cool to watch, but doesn&#039;t belong to real life.Another thing I would like n.nvt to clear up is the difference in trial vs. paid. Is the difference only the obvious time limit or is the protection level diminished as well?Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jaspion, post: 173730, member: 8794"] Thanks everybody for your shared opinions. This has been indeed a productive continuation to the original discussion started in this thread, and it's good that no one has broken this great combo with personal attacks. After all, we're all here to learn and share knowledge. At this point, one thing still bothers me. I suspect this is a very important issue that has been largely overlooked here. It is the case for Virtual Machine tests in evaluating antivirus/antimalware solutions. If n.nvt and Littlebits are correct, VMs [I]do not[/I] represent real live machines well enough because the virtual system doesn't have the same level of access to the machine's resources, meaning the AV also doesn't have access to all the resources it needs to work properly. Is that correct? Because this would mean that so many users here doing VM tests are just doing little more than playing a type of video-game: it's cool to watch, but doesn't belong to real life. Another thing I would like n.nvt to clear up is the difference in trial vs. paid. Is the difference only the obvious time limit or is the protection level diminished as well? Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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