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Richard said:
Which is better McAfee, Norton, or Microsoft Windows Live one care?
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All three of those are pretty dreadful. I recommend NOD32, Kaspersky, or
Avast if you want a free one.


Malke
 
Really, none of them. Try AVG Free from Grisoft. Much less intrusive, and it
does an excellent job. For anti-spyware, try Ad-Aware from Lavasoft, also
free.
 
All of those three that you posted are horrible and will give you issues that are not needed. I recommend NOD32 or Avast
 
I have been using Norton for years and it used to be a great company. As
far as I am concerned there is no useful support at Norton anymore. I
suspect its no different at McAfee. I don't believe there's much difference
between MacAfee and Norton antivirus. The Norton I use rarely finds anything
but when I use the free virus scan from Trend micro, it always comes up with
something that Norton misses.
 
Richard said:
Which is better McAfee, Norton, or Microsoft Windows Live one care?
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I wouldn't allow any of those any where near any of my computers!

I don't think any security "suite" is a good choice. Use smaller,
less-resource-draining stand-alone products.

I used, and recommended, Norton Antivirus and then Norton Internet
Security, for many years, on Win98, WinNT, Win2K, and WinXP, all without
any significant problems. I had used McAfee prior to that. But it's
been several years since I've been tempted to try McAfee products. Their
quality seemed to take a steep nose-dive after they were acquired by
Network Associates.

However, when my subscription to Symantec's updates for Norton
Internet Security 2002 came up for renewal (at a cost substantially
higher than the preceding year's subscription), I decided to try less
expensive solutions. I downloaded and installed the free version of
GriSoft's AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php ). AVast is
also a very good choice, and is also free.


A recent comparison:

Retrospective / ProActive Test Feb 2007
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_02.php


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Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
 
Nice chart..thanks.

Important to note its based on XP not Vista.

Using the scoring, and assigning a simple rank for each of the 17 applications in each detection category(12) and giving equal wt to any ties the results would yield.

1.Gdata
2. FSecure
3. AEC
4. MicroWorld
5. Kaspersky
6. Avira
7. Symantec
8. Eset
9. McAfee
10.Softwin
11. Frisk
12. Grisoft
13. Fortinet
14. Dr. Web
15. Norman
16. Alwil
17. Msft

The only reason McAfee ranks so high is due to the favorable results in Windows and Macro Viruses and median rank in Backdoors.

The first seven items consistently would rank in the top ten of all applications. Where as Softwin's Bit Defender one of the more often spoken about/popular European products would only fall in the top 10 on rankings less than 30% of the time.

Surfing, email habits, and a prior history of infection would still dictate whether to use a fee or fee based.

I've only had one infection since 1995 on seven machines(4 desktops, 3 laptops) and relatively insignificant. A Msft Word Macro Worm on a file that originated from a work network and loaded on a home machine via a floppy.

Like many others I've deviated from Symantec originally in Vista with Kaspersky one machine and Avast on another, though now N360 runs remarkably well without any issue or performance penalty on the machine that was using Avast.

...winston


: Richard wrote:
: > Which is better McAfee, Norton, or Microsoft Windows Live one care?
:
:
: I wouldn't allow any of those any where near any of my computers!
:
: I don't think any security "suite" is a good choice. Use smaller,
: less-resource-draining stand-alone products.
:
: I used, and recommended, Norton Antivirus and then Norton Internet
: Security, for many years, on Win98, WinNT, Win2K, and WinXP, all without
: any significant problems. I had used McAfee prior to that. But it's
: been several years since I've been tempted to try McAfee products. Their
: quality seemed to take a steep nose-dive after they were acquired by
: Network Associates.
:
: However, when my subscription to Symantec's updates for Norton
: Internet Security 2002 came up for renewal (at a cost substantially
: higher than the preceding year's subscription), I decided to try less
: expensive solutions. I downloaded and installed the free version of
: GriSoft's AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php ). AVast is
: also a very good choice, and is also free.
:
:
: A recent comparison:
:
: Retrospective / ProActive Test Feb 2007
: http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_02.php
:
:
: --
:
: Bruce Chambers
:
: Help us help you:
:
:
:
: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
: safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
:
: Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
 
Ad-aware does not yet have a Vista compatible version. They are still taking
surveys to see if they should produce one!
 
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