Check Point suspended usage of the Kaspersky engine 6 years ago btw.
Apart from some third-tier products, all of the partners are the same, with very similar tactics and techniques that drive revenue and similar protection capabilities. The differences are very minor and unlikely to be noticed in a day to day usage.
The statements that companies respect or don’t respect privacy (any of the ones you’ve mentioned) are pure speculation and nothing has been proven. Businesses today are too global and multi-national and different laws apply to different arms of the company. Unless anyone has SOLID evidence, the privacy policy is the only thing I personally trust.
What do they use now? If it’s in-house, I’m definitely going to pass.
I vote for Emsisoft. I have a spare 1-year key for Emsisoft if you want!
I appreciate this, brother. Thank you. But I’ll pass simply because there are others who may need that key more so than me. I’m fortunate enough to easily be able to afford a license so I don’t want to take this opportunity from someone who can’t. God bless mate.
I will tally your vote for Emsisoft, however. Vote 2 for EAM. Thanks again!
Eset signatures doesn't make you feel the absence of a behavior guard.
Eset is head-to-head with kaspersky and other vendor who rely more on BB.
G-Data isn't slow.
It consumes a lot of ram but it what this is made for, being used. In facts lately on my PC G-Data consumes the same amout of ram of Emsisoft.
However G-Data has Beast and Deepray (BB and machine learning) that are top notch tech.
If you care so much about testing results you can find G-Data is on top in many those.
IMHO G-Data > Emsisoft.
I used ESET for many years and you’re correct, the sigs are good enough to handle most threats. Especially if you’re someone like me who is a paranoid user to begin with. That being said, this doesn’t change the fact that ESET is a one-trick pony. If you can get past their sigs (difficult but not impossible), it’s a wrap most of the time. I don’t like a “eggs in one basket approach” which is exactly what ESET is.
Maybe LiveGuard will change my opinion once it matures. Right now, even that new feature looks half-baked.
As for G-DATA, their UI looks like it was made in the late 2000s. Their product has odd glitches where two separate and visually different UIs have opened up on the system, depending on how the AV was accessed. I saw mention of this right on this forum, you can find it by searching for G-DATA.
Their site still says “The best G DATA of all time - Test our security software 2022.” Except we’ve been in 2023 for close to four months now. That tells me there isn’t much attention given to the site. Grammatical errors throughout the site. And they seem exclusionary, with a major focus on the German market. The awards page lists achievements from 2021 and nothing more recent than that. All of these things matter to me, which is why I excluded them from my shortlist.
The entire G-DATA setup looks low-quality compared to the likes of F-Secure, ESET, Emsisoft, BitDefender, Kaspersky, Avast, and even Norton. Even iif BEAST and DeepRay work as you say. The G-DATA software might be good but perception matters. And G-DATA gets a low score on that from me.
I've tried them all, I care mostly about system performance impact as all of them are very close to each other in terms of protection. I found only ESET and F-Secure to be pure AVs, no bloatware or toolbars or crap installed without your consent such as Kaspersky's VPN which is NOT free but just a rebadged Hotspot Shield that has very low data limit until you subscribe let alone the nagging to install the browser toolbars.
Agreed. ESET and F-Secure are quite clean. It’s a pity ESET has no real BB, it’s a superstar when it comes to sigs.
