November 2009 AV-Comparitives Reviews

**WileECyte** · 12-02-09, 02:58 PM

When it really comes down to it... Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware/Anti-Spyware is really no longer all that relevant in the security arena. It can only protect you about things it KNOWS about. There's TONS of stuff out there that's not known by any of the AV vendors. Sure Hueristics can help SOME. It's impossible to make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenious.

**Cybs** · 12-02-09, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

It's impossible to make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenius.

sigged!

**Red_Lizard2** · 12-02-09, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

There's TONS of stuff out there that's not known by any of the AV vendors. Sure Hueristics can help SOME. It's impossible to make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenius.

true but these tests (like the recent one released by AV-Com) can help in finding the most fool-proof for the unknown. I.E. in this case Avira

**Veovis** · 12-02-09, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by Cybs

Originally Posted by WileECyte

It's impossible to make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenius.

sigged!

You should fix the spelling error if you're gonna sig it. :P Sorry Wile, not normally a spelling nazi, but sigs are a different beast.

**WileECyte** · 12-02-09, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by Veovis

Originally Posted by Cybs

Originally Posted by WileECyte

It's impossible to make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenius.

sigged!

You should fix the spelling error if you're gonna sig it. :P Sorry Wile, not normally a spelling nazi, but sigs are a different beast.

Fixed. :P

**ninja|oaklandr** · 12-03-09, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

When it really comes down to it... Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware/Anti-Spyware is really no longer all that relevant in the security arena. It can only protect you about things it KNOWS about. There's TONS of stuff out there that's not known by any of the AV vendors. Sure Hueristics can help SOME. It's impossible to make anything fool proof because fools are so ingenious.

I still don't understand how people get them that often. I know people that seem to get one every 2 weeks. I spend more time on a computer then all them combined and I still never get them. Must be the p0rn sites.

**Veovis** · 12-03-09, 05:22 PM

I don't think I've ever really had one, short of a really malicious one in 2004 or so (I forget the name) that seemed to infect the whole world, including thousands of computers where I worked at the time behind a DOD security filter.

Back on topic, I think I am going to switch from Avast! to MSE. Yesterday Avast! gave me two pop-ups that it wanted to reboot my PC from installing a program udpate. Granted I was able to choose no, but that still pissed me off. I had plenty of complaints about AVG and Avira, but neither of them ever asked to reboot my PC. I like to have my PC running for days if not weeks of uptime so it is silly to have to restart from an AV update.

So, I'm installing MSE tonight. Bye bye Avast!