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I can't believe my Nod32 falling like it has been.....11th now....come onnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too many people using stolen/illegal keys which reduced the revenue from sales and therefore reduced the staff and the availability to do research. What did all the software thieves expect...that they would forever get a premium product without paying for it. Hate to bust your bubble, but it doesn't work that way.

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I can't believe my Nod32 falling like it has been.....11th now....come onnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too many people using stolen/illegal keys which reduced the revenue from sales and therefore reduced the staff and the availability to do research. What did all the software thieves expect...that they would forever get a premium product without paying for it. Hate to bust your bubble, but it doesn't work that way.

While that might be true, the staff part is not. Read this.

While other AV companies have near double or more employees, ESET certainly is not cutting or removing anyone.

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Good results for Panda.

I ran that Panda on 2 systems last week. One with Windows 7 and one with Windows 10. It really bogged down system performance on both but, was more noticeable on Windows 7. Also, it removed some system .dll's from the Windows 10 start menu which caused the start menu to crash every time I rebooted the system.

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I ran that Panda on 2 systems last week. One with Windows 7 and one with Windows 10.

It really bogged down system performance on both but, was more noticeable on Windows 7.

Also, it removed some system .dll's from the Windows 10 start menu which caused the start menu

to crash every time I rebooted the system.

Sorry to read that.

However, there have been systems that run Panda without problems...

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I can't believe my Nod32 falling like it has been.....11th now....come onnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe why people are a few times in a year surprised by the ESET results being much worse then expected ;) ESET just don't have a stable detection rate in this kind of tests. .

Only Kaspersky and Bitdefender are always on top the last years when it comes to detection :rolleyes:

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I can't believe my Nod32 falling like it has been.....11th now....come onnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe my Nod32 falling like it has been.....11th now....come onnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm also beginning to wonder if maybe i should seriously switch to another AV based on av-test results... but i'm not quite sure which ....

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I use to think so as well, that was until i read this

Two former Kaspersky employees have accused the company of faking malware to harm rival antivirus products. They would falsely classify legitimate files as malicious, tricking other antivirus companies that blindly copied Kaspersky's data into deleting them from their customers' computers.

In one technique, Kaspersky's engineers would take an important piece of software commonly found in PCs and inject bad code into it so that the file looked like it was infected, the ex-employees said. They would send the doctored file anonymously to VirusTotal.

Then, when competitors ran this doctored file through their virus detection engines, the file would be flagged as potentially malicious. If the doctored file looked close enough to the original, Kaspersky could fool rival companies into thinking the clean file was problematic as well.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/did_kaspersky_f.html

so..... to compete with other rivals, they sabotage their results, causing rivals to create false positives to benefit their own ends at the expense of the user ? doesn't sound like it's in the users best interests at all.... this sort of behaviour from a AV no less.
No longer seems trustworthy to me :/
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I'm looking at the Trend Micro results and it seems to have been impressive for some time now. Anyone using it.

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