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Main Tests

Those are the main tests of AV-Comparatives released every 3 months. They are usually splitted into “on-demand” detection rate tests and “retrospective/proactive” detection rate tests. Malware detection rate is still one of the most important , deterministic and reliable factors of an Anti-Virus engine which works also without asking for user interaction/decision/opinion...

Link: http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews

P.S. You have to download the main test

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Did I do this right?

This seems to be the only legit anti-virus testing site. Others, like top10, seem to place the anti-virus that paid them the most on top

Norton, Eset, Kaspersky and McAfee all got the Advanced+ rank.

To me, it seems like norton did a tiny bit better than eset and kaspersky.

So if you're considering getting an anti-virus I recommend any of those four.

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In my opinion norton win this test, it have highest detection rate from all AD+, norton is faster than other and take only 10MB of RAM. Norton 2009/360 3.0 is the best security solution for now.

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From 2008 Norton became light, but in 2009 line there was revolution, nowdays ESET takes 40-60MB of ram while norton takes 6-10MB, and scaning is faster than in ESET family. Everybody who say norton 2009/360 3.0 is crap dont even try it.

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From 2008 Norton became light, but in 2009 line there was revolution, nowdays ESET takes 40-60MB of ram while norton takes 6-10MB, and scaning is faster than in ESET family. Everybody who say norton 2009/360 3.0 is crap dont even try it.

I disagree. Norton 360 isnt crap, but it's definitely not as good some others that I've tried.

This seems to be the only legit anti-virus testing site. Others, like top10, seem to place the anti-virus that paid them the most on top

;) I was thinking the exact same thing. top10 makes profit off of these tests which is how they rank the products. I think they said BitDefender was the best AV, nu uh I dont think so.

Nice post by the way :s

► Rock Lee

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ESET v3 with a 97,6% detection rate

good enough for me :s

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:s world had changed!

on a serious note- it'll take me few month's of similar results for me to change my mind about ESET

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Please read through the .PDF results on the site. They explain all testing methodologies.

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ESET v3 with a 97,6% detection rate

good enough for me :s

would like to see the latest version of este on it. anti and suite versions i always believled i good test should hae 2 different versions of said software. as in este it be v 3 and 4. other 2008 and 2009 of its software. tahtat way one can see if something was actaully improved in the newer versions.

i know este catches a lot since they do their dangest to catch keys and patches of their software

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The next test like this one will be in 6 months time. There is a continuation of this one (testing for example the heuristics) in 3 month.

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Very Very Surprised to see Norton and McAfee make it to the top along with NOD32. :lol:

Lots of progress by Norton.

Need to see the results for the next couple of tests...

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any test on Norton 2009? that can prove it is improving. other than that thank you :moon:

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If there were a better fix for NAV2009 I would give it a try. :) It is very good and very fast indeed.

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