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| Thread ID: 96861 | 2009-01-26 19:53:00 | Wainuitech - Nortons Wins | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 742200 | 2009-01-26 19:53:00 | www.pcworld.com .html I'd love to know how the hell they get these results. Never mind your screenshot you posted - I think we have all had similar results cleaning out malware on Nortons PCs. And also, I've been getting McAfee PCs too lately - pretty similar results to Nortons. Its a joke. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 742201 | 2009-01-26 20:28:00 | :lol: That should have been the Monday laughs - Thats a joke alright - as you said we have all had similar results, with both Norton and McAfee - and we have ALL had PC's that have Nortons saying its clean when its obviously NOT. Funny enough over the last week or so I have had several customers tell me they have spoken to various people and been told stay clear of Nortons its CRAP. One guy his son is the head of some IT department ( so he said) - they loved Nortons - it couldn't do any wrong, the son saw Nod32 on the Guys PC that I had installed and asked what it was - I was told a few days later Nortons came off all the PC's after he tried Nod32 and just about every PC in the company had infections that Norton Missed when scanned with Nod32. Lab tests and real world results are obviously completely different - I pity the poor people who would rather believe a lab test when the actual real proof is right in front of them in the way of viruses on their PC. OH but wait the latest lab test says I dont have any infections because I believe every thing I read and the software is perfect :lol: Great Tui Ad I think. YEAH RIGHT! :p |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 742202 | 2009-01-26 20:34:00 | Did they even test NOD32?? | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 742203 | 2009-01-26 20:38:00 | Did they even test NOD32?? If they did the detection rate would've been 110% cos Norton's was "99%":p |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 742204 | 2009-01-26 20:50:00 | My work is part of a national WAN and we had used Symantec Corporate Edition since before I got here 5 yrs ago, and we had stayed with it all that time due to corporate rates for the entire group, some 500 users + our parent group worldwide in the thousands of users. The WAN has now separated from the worldwide group so we had to find new Enterprise Agreements for MS and the like so anyway, we got Nod32 this time and I have to say what a difference. Symantec used to be scheduled for Monday night scans, if users didn't leave their PC turned on, symantec would run the next morning and cripple the PC while it commandeered the drive. Not to mention the Console was crap and unless all PC were on, any amendments were not delivered to the PC. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 742205 | 2009-01-26 21:44:00 | We have McAfee on 40k+ computers in our company. I'd hate to think what nasties are floating around. Plus (despite being a computer company) everyone has 3yr+ laptops, with me on a P4, so the computers run terribly slow as a result. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 742206 | 2009-01-26 21:57:00 | whats the bet symantec stopped by to grease some palms like they do with most computer manufactuers so they install it on every new machine sold - except here the FAIL marking became a oh my what a wonderful product :illogical | MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 742207 | 2009-01-26 22:00:00 | When a magazine comes up with a result that run so counter to real world experience - well, I have to wonder what Norton's spends on advertising with that publisher. | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 742208 | 2009-01-26 22:39:00 | I had a PC in which had a few viruses - guess what was broken. :lol: | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 742209 | 2009-01-26 22:48:00 | When a magazine comes up with a result that run so counter to real world experience - well, I have to wonder what Norton's spends on advertising with that publisher. It is not just that magazine with those results, there are numerous reviews and tests done by experts all over the world that give Norton top marks. You have to wonder about how credible the comments are from a few forum members who have a long standing hatred of the product and no doubt let bias enter into their judgement compared with the opinions of the rest of the worlds expert testers. They don't just make these figures up. they can't afford compromise their integrity by doing things like that. It was done in conjunction with http://av-test.org/ Norton did very well, identifying 98.9 percent of the 654,914 collected samples of Trojan horses, worms, password-stealers, and other nasties. |
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