| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 103542 | 2009-09-27 19:32:00 | Microsoft's 'Norton-killer' out this week | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 814468 | 2009-09-28 02:49:00 | Nod32 As shown (www.imagef1.net.nz) - BUT then the AV was disabled and the program retried. MS/AV MS result (www.imagef1.net.nz) on the same drive. Took approx 1 hour to scan the whole drive - 72GB. But NOD shows loads of infections. MS shows 2. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 814469 | 2009-09-28 03:20:00 | most of the reviews i have seen say its the best thing ever... ME got some pretty good reviews for a while. Norton AV is normally highly praised by reviewers, winning awards as fast as it can clog a pc. It is just reality that spoils things. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 814470 | 2009-09-28 03:24:00 | yep -- That's a customers original drive, the data was put scanned /put back, then rescanned on a clean drive and found those two. BUT the data was only scanned as a slave drive, I have it seen sometimes any AV will miss when slaved. What had happened on the original drive - after Nod was disabled, (to allow the infected programs to install) the infection "had a go" at nod and damaged to to a point of not working correctly. BUT as I mentioned Nod32 did catch all the others previously, even though it was disabled by the owner. What needs to be tested is a drive with no AV or another name brand, then a copy made, One scanned with Nod, one scanned with MS/AV. AND a PC with ONLY MS on it, then over a period of time see the results. Still - the MS one looks a lot more promising than some of the other free ones. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 814471 | 2009-09-28 04:36:00 | +1, very nice thus far, hasn't slowed down at all which is the biggest concern in my books. Hasn't picked up the DotA Launcher as a false positive as Avast used to which is excellent! :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 814472 | 2009-09-28 05:22:00 | Wouldn't take much to be a "Norton Killer" Booyaa! My thoughts exactly, there has to be a catch, noone does something for free. |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 814473 | 2009-09-28 05:39:00 | Anyone care to guess how despondent virus writers are at this news? Will they be disgusted to be relegated to an unskilled category? Will they be diving out of windows because their day is over? How will we find out about Viagra cheap merchants? Will online banking wither and die? Will anybody remember it as they listen to their Zune? If M$ can flood the market, crippling the revenue stream of real AV suppliers, they will have done their traditional squeezing out of the opposition. It's legal, not that legality bothers them too much. Who knows, they might have perfectly altruistic motives, in which case we will need serious umbrellas to stop the falling swine effluvium while we sip our Tui. No I am being too cynical; that sunrise from behind Ballmer heralds a new dawn of MS dispensing free goodies to all. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 814474 | 2009-09-28 07:03:00 | I trialed the beta for Security Essentials a while back in its early stages...it was actually more enjoyable to use than Norton, and didn't use massive amounts of memory. Not sure on its detection rates though, might try the latest beta and see if it picks up anything on my sisters laptop lol! Being free, I wonder where M$ is going with this... |
Blam (54) | ||
| 814475 | 2009-09-28 07:06:00 | Being free, I wonder where M$ is going with this... They give away a lot of software for free - it's all part of improving their public image. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 814476 | 2009-09-28 08:12:00 | Interesting. Some people are going to actually check this software out before condemning it out of hand due to the fact it is produced by Microsoft or one of the companies Microsoft now own. I won't check out the Beta and will wait until it comes out and put it on a test machine. I haven't had any problems with the free version of Avast myself but if there is something better out there I will give the MS effort a try. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 814477 | 2009-09-28 09:47:00 | Found some old backups of the families that I knew had viruses (on the DVDs - infected backups, hooray!), scanned them and found what I'd say is everything ...! Using next to no RAM and not slowing down the PC is a BIG bonus in my books :D Thats why I ditched AVG for Avast ... Works tried to get me using McAfee on the laptop, but even that's slowed down the PC at times (Not as bad as AVG, not as quick as Avast!). Avast uses 32MB for its main process, plus an additional 6-odd sub-processes for varying protection for browser / outlook etc, each another 2-4MB or so. It's good enough to stop the Win7 alerts from popping up, so it'll do me for now I think :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 | |||||