Talk about issues... they were smart enough to think, let's use a slow disk to exacerbate the effect of addl. I/O - so how did they avoid thinking about doing the same for the other two performance resources, CPU and RAM?
Yeah, it's Tomshardware, where they can't find anything with less than 8GB and 4 cores. The tests should have been run on a 1GB single-core netbook. And the paragraph on Windows Defender left me dizzy. "Defender guards against spyware. It’s a free download and a fairly necessary one if you’re only going to run a basic, free AV app." How can anyone who claims to know anything make such a dated statement (all AV's have included antispyware for years)? I wonder how long it took them to download Defender for Windows 7. So the whole article proves nothing. Whoever green-lighted the research and then actually published it was just as clueless as the writer. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:alex.eckelbe...@gfi.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products Yes, a rather odd summary... there are issues with this review. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A more generalized comparison of AV products More about system load than efficacy, and VIPRE comes out fairly well, though the conclusion is not what you might expect: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/antivirus-performance-benchmark,3045.html Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
