AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test (May 2014)

[darko999]

did you not LOOK at the processes being run?? 94 ! ! !

and as I said before I have six machines here (one on Android) but the other five four are W7 and my Son's Lappy is W8.1 all run VERY happily Nortons and I purchase a Five licence box usually under £40 so a tenner a year and have you never noticed there is NO full hack for Norton's? only a trial reset that is haphazard to say the least. Whereas I can get you enough keygen / hacks to sink a battleship for any other AV.

It's very simple you are BIASED and probably don't have the first clue on setting Norton's up or you have such a low level machine it struggles to run sensible.

Wow I see you mad and you have to compare "machines to feel good", I have a FX-8350 @4,5 8GB ram 1600 G.Skillz and a dual gtx 460 1gb edition. My system is quite good. And you seem not to understand anything, you spam about the cpu usage, I already told ya. Everyone but Bitdefender where using 0% Cpu while not running a manual scan. Please stop saying "Norton amazing cuz look all these pictures its amazing" Its not. You really don't understand a fuck about AV solutions. You clearly have never ran any kind of test by yourself to check the real security level of these software. I have multiple Virtual MAchines and believe me when I was bored the best I did whast to test AV vs really really new malware. And Norton was the worse next to ahnlab.

Its way stupid how norton pretends to protect their users, it will block almost everything with that garbage W.S Reputation levle of thread. Lmao thats not security, lets block everythign else and then you have to allow what you want to youse, really. Thats not how it works, a good security software should never be that fake. It has to detect malware, not clear files as malware just because Norton doesn't know them. Thats why Kaspersky or Bitdefender are just better. Less false positive, better detection, better proactive dedection. There is no way ever, Norton will go to AV comparatives, because they don't have that kind of technology, all they do is put a paranoid cloud based detection that will work with common malware. But when it comes to zero days or variant, it will let them run with no problem at all.

Edited June 17, 2014 by darko999

[AlexCross]

Norton is pretty bad, it becames the new Mcafee,they were good back in the days, but they failed to keep up with the technology. Too many false positives.

My personal top 5 are:

Bitdefender

Emsisoft +Online Armor

Kaspersky

Webroot

G-Data

But since I have ditched the MS's operating system, I don't care anymore about AVs.

Edited June 17, 2014 by AlexCross

[7even]

I have to admit about how bad norton's ws.reputation is :P

But like I said, it's capable of everyday use. And also basically it's FREE since you can easily generate 3 to 6 month serial with virtual machine. So for free security suite I really could not demanding more :D

[kantry123]

I have to admit about how bad norton's ws.reputation is :P

But like I said, it's capable of everyday use. And also basically it's FREE since you can easily generate 3 to 6 month serial with virtual machine. So for free security suite I really could not demanding more :D

hmmm..yeah true...but can u tell me how to generate keys thru VM?

[7even]

I have to admit about how bad norton's ws.reputation is :P

But like I said, it's capable of everyday use. And also basically it's FREE since you can easily generate 3 to 6 month serial with virtual machine. So for free security suite I really could not demanding more :D

hmmm..yeah true...but can u tell me how to generate keys thru VM?

Here...

http://www.tiploot.com/norton-internet-security-2014-180-days-trial-product-key/

Or if you're to lazy to make one (like I am :P ) just request a key here:

http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/92322-norton-unlimited-request-key/

There's a fellow named gipsy who share norton's key for free. :lol:

[kantry123]

I have to admit about how bad norton's ws.reputation is :P

But like I said, it's capable of everyday use. And also basically it's FREE since you can easily generate 3 to 6 month serial with virtual machine. So for free security suite I really could not demanding more :D

hmmm..yeah true...but can u tell me how to generate keys thru VM?

Here...

http://www.tiploot.com/norton-internet-security-2014-180-days-trial-product-key/

Or if you're to lazy to make one (like I am :P ) just request a key here:

http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/92322-norton-unlimited-request-key/

There's a fellow named gipsy who share norton's key for free. :lol:

do u know how this guy generates so many keys easily?

isn't there any other way?

regards and thanks for ur answer

[7even]

do u know how this guy generates so many keys easily?

isn't there any other way?

regards and thanks for ur answer

I don't know. Perhaps you should ask him directly. Cheers ;)

[wajihero]

i do not like norton due to:

1. too many false positives, blocked and quarantined every safe crack as WS.Repuration.1

2. could not detect and block 20% malware for me, every 2nd day my PC was infected.

Reasons i like bitdefender TS:

1. Good Detection

2. great pro active defense

3. can be sometimes a bit heavy on system, but PC got way less infected as in the case of using Norton.

[oliverjia]

Norton had been good after version 2009 for several years (up until v2012), but then it's pure POS now. I remember one Norton Employee left norton, because he/she does not agree with Norton's "file reputation technology", which basically turns into a scam now: label every new file as suspicious and then it's up to the user to decide whether or not to run these new files. The reason is very simple: well, we (Norton) warned about this file, but you still ran it, so it's your fault! How convenient.

I mean, come on, it's an AV's farking job to determine whether or not to run a new file. If Norton can not do that, then it's a POS. that simple.

I used to use Norton IS from 2009-2012, but now I hate Norton because they way they treat its customers.

Edited July 11, 2014 by oliverjia