Hello all, Saturday, November 9, 2002, rick wrote: > Please point your browser to the very reputable/independent virus > testing lab - virus bulletin > http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?avg.xml > This lab tests virus products from all vendors who wish to have their > product tested. If you notice AVG has failed all the tests except 1. > This is obviously not a very good product.
As I know, there are some wiruses, which are old and not spread via Internet and Grisoft have not their source to implement them to database. AVG catched all viruses I have ever received and it is real reason I'm using it. I have tested many AV programs, Kaspersky and NAV received many VB awards, but not detected some of in-the-wild viruses, I have received. Problem was in too slow update. BTW Kaspersky version 4.x was worst AV I have ever used, many users had problems with it. > The eicar-file is not a virus. Therefore many security professionals > would state that not detecting a non-virus is a good thing. False > positives will cause a failure at the prestigious virus bulletin > testing labs. I would be more concerned that AVG failed all but 1 > test than I would that it failed to detect the eicar-file. As I wrote already, Eicar is detected by AVG, but nested messages are not correctly sent to plugin and it can't check them fully. This is a confirmed bug by The Bat! Support. > Again, not trying to step on peoples toes but simply wish to provide > my fellow TheBat! users with some accurate information. Informations are not "accurate", please try to understand the problem before You send them as "accurate". > I would recommend you to use Nod32. It has the best results of any > product tested at virus bulletin. I use Nod32 in conjunction with > TheBat! and I have never had one virus problem. NOD32 is very good product, I know developers as I know developers from Grisoft and I recommend it too. But problems with Eicar are not on AVG's side, but on TB's side :-( -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech support of The Bat! http://www.thebat.cz Using the best The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 AMD ThunderBird 1,2 GHz, 512 MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
