Re: Antivirus Software Solutions?

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:12 AM -0500 "Marc Chabot (.net)" 
<marc () chabot net> wrote:
> I had a bad opinion of mc-a-fee before, but if you say it's highly
> effective against NONE viruses, I believe you.  :-D
That's just the modern spelling of known.  :-)
> I'm looking for anybody who had something negative to say about the
> lastest version of NOD32 (for windoze boxes) available since this
> summer.  Any comment about it?
If you are serious about knowing which a/v products are "best" (for some 
definition of best that is meaningful for you), you need to look at the 
real researchers, not the pc mags, which are all about touchy feely and not 
about performance and not the vendors, who are obviously biased.

<http://www.av-test.org/>
<http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/virus/>
<http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm>
<http://www.virusbtn.com/>

NOD 32 scored very well in the most recent tests at the University of 
Tampere.  Unfortunately, not all researchers test NOD 32, so you have less 
data to rely on than other scanners.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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