RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

2011-10-13 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Yes, a rather odd summary... there are issues with this review.

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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

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RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

2011-10-13 Thread David Lum
How would a clean config be slower than with an AV product installed? (boot, 
etc).

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From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:alex.eckelbe...@gfi.com] 
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Subject: RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

Yes, a rather odd summary... there are issues with this review.

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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

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RE: A more generalized comparison of AV products

2011-10-13 Thread Carl Houseman
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


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