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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 877346" data-attributes="member: 83059">A previous day job involved being in a war room analyzing newly discovered compromised devices that I worked on.The level of sophistication I&#039;ve seen from such attacks (usually the personal devices of high value targets) was just astounding, ranging from well covered up zero-day exploits to hardware attacks.If you are worried about a state sponsored actor targeting you, whether it&#039;s Russia or the NSA or China, I frankly do not expect ANY commercial product on the market to protect you. I really hope that&#039;s not why educated people are choosing an AV software..... So that leaves what matters: Does the product deliver the level of protection that you want, and do you trust it?The former, I would safely say yes, Kaspersky products have consistently tested near or at the top of the pack whether it&#039;s dynamic or static protection. The latter? That&#039;s a really hard question to answer for everyone. Honestly cloud-based AVs creep me out a little -- almost every engine has some cloud component and they all involve agreeing to submit samples automatically for things the cloud doesn&#039;t recognize. You are placing a lot of trust in a third party and basically only have your gut and their track record to make that decision on. Your control ends with &quot;well my AV just uploaded this EXE to their servers, from my IP address&quot;. What they do with that, and how much of the upload transaction they log? I&#039;m not sure you have anything to go on but your trust in them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 877346, member: 83059"] A previous day job involved being in a war room analyzing newly discovered compromised devices that I worked on. The level of sophistication I've seen from such attacks (usually the personal devices of high value targets) was just astounding, ranging from well covered up zero-day exploits to hardware attacks. If you are worried about a state sponsored actor targeting you, whether it's Russia or the NSA or China, I frankly do not expect ANY commercial product on the market to protect you. I really hope that's not why educated people are choosing an AV software..... So that leaves what matters: Does the product deliver the level of protection that you want, and do you trust it? The former, I would safely say yes, Kaspersky products have consistently tested near or at the top of the pack whether it's dynamic or static protection. The latter? That's a really hard question to answer for everyone. Honestly cloud-based AVs creep me out a little -- almost every engine has some cloud component and they all involve agreeing to submit samples automatically for things the cloud doesn't recognize. You are placing a lot of trust in a third party and basically only have your gut and their track record to make that decision on. Your control ends with "well my AV just uploaded this EXE to their servers, from my IP address". What they do with that, and how much of the upload transaction they log? I'm not sure you have anything to go on but your trust in them. [/QUOTE]

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