RE: Avast 7 free vs AVG 2012 free
malwarekiller said:
i really dont understand the point of this war room and other type of community reviews...as each AV gets better..it really doesnt matter on these reviews..
test was done with 132 malwares...where here on our malware hub we have things with 1000 pieces of malware and avast did beat some of the AV's in that way...and what the hell! i can tell u most of the samples in these malware collections dont contain real malware...many are false positives..so if any AV detects them its not to be counted at all..i do understand the urge of getting a standard AV...but these war rooms and community reviews make no sense from my point of view...as there are uncountable pieces of malware out there on the internet...
Prevention is always better than cure...avast can do more for u on prevention and no AV can remove everything...especially when it counters complex malware like rootkits...and how can u say those installers in these review are malwares...I have accumlated a chunk of 150MB of undetected malwares missed by avast from these malware collections and sent them to their lab and look at the reply i got...look at screenshot
Well here there is an option all you have to do is not post here.
Everyone is not making you post here. As for the community reviews I think that it's a great idea because it gives new comers to the forum a base idea on how an AV works and what in the videos he/she has see and what they like. If they go out and test it and they don't like it then they will go and remove it. If on the other hand they come back and say that they have found a good AV that works for their needs then, that is the good thing.
That is why if you have no idea what you are doing in the Virus Exchange and the MalwareTips Malware Links page I think that you should leave that area.
When it comes to the YouTube videos I also think it's great because it gives a different touch to YouTube, instead of going on there to see Going Quantum and Monstercat Media and Freddie Wong there are people like Languy and the others that teach people on the safety of the internet and what they think that you should be running on your computer. It gives people (new comers to the internet) a heads up on what they are about to enter.
malwarekiller said:
these tests get more and more problematic and avast labs are very particular no innocent samples will be in database unless proved as malicious as per their analysis...and how u garuntee all the malware in the pack work..u never know many may be very old..
That's the thing you won't know unless you try. Just like I have heard and other people have heard is that if you have not given it a shot how do you know what or how it's going to be like?
malwarekiller said:
So the conclusion: these reviews and war rooms achieve very less...it depends from system to system...if Kaspersky works for my friend and he stays clean with it i will leave him with it...Btw! but no AV is 100% u need to have layered protection to be 100% secure...remember:
Don't see how it depends on the system, but anyway I have to agree not all AV's are 100% right, that is why you should have
COMMON SENSE. Even people that have just entered the internet and they see a page that is asking for them that is asking for credit card information, you would think that they will realise that something is wrong.
Lets say you are looking around for a company that you want to make a website for you and you find this company like Webcentral for instance and what you see of their website and what they have said over the phone and they have shown you websites that they have made and they look quite good and then this overseas person from another country to you rings you and then says that they are a website company that makes websites and then they say give the money and we will. You have no proof that what they have done how good their service is and if they have a website. So it's
COMMON SENSE to realise that something is wrong.
malwarekiller said:
So if u are basing conclusions on these reviews u will be changing your AV every week twice!!!! I have cleaned a lot of computers...and almost all AV's are bypassed on infected system...there is no AV that doesnt miss something
And a reply to blackhole comment,if u think AVG is best...then u will need to run AVG alone for a month or more and u will get infected as even legit sites are hijacked...so no need to blow your trumpet and show disregard for other AV's...u know nothing is best...nothing can be judged on small samples..no nothing..I am finished!
Not all people change their AV's every week. I have been using Trend Micro now for 8 years now and I have swapped to see what other AV's are like but I have always gone back to them because I trust them in what they do (plus I do beta testing for them). Also when you say that you have clean a lot of computers, I see that you have done so here on MalwareTips, but where else?
I bet that most of the people that moved to the internet and started to use it I bet that most of everyone's first AV was AVG and I bet yours was as well. Their not that bad it's just that other people have given a bad view. It does what Avast would do and MSE, I don't see what their bad.
So after this I think that if you don't want to talk in these sections and you don't like them then just leave..I am finished!
