-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi rick,
@9-Nov-2002, 13:37 -0500 (18:37 UK time) rick [R] in mid:116296317071.20021109133744@;adelphia.net said: R> If you read the url I posted to thomas, R> http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/pdf/2002/200206.pdf on R> page 19 (pdf document) virus bulletin review explains clearly why R> they used a older version of grisoft for the tests. There R> appeared to be technical difficulties with grisoft. The AVG R> product caused blue screens, and failed to update properly. In that case it seems to me that their review is inaccurate and of little or no consequence. It may actually point to an admission of virusbtn's own lack of technical competence to be doing what they're doing! ;-) Anyone already successfully using AVG clearly has had no such problems as they have experienced with the software. There are dozens of them on this list alone. Other independent reviewers have found no such faults with the Grisoft AVG product. (That's not to say AVG cant be faulted - just that it doesn't have the faults they claim). If virusbtn had any true intent to be accurate it strikes me that they should have ensured that AVG had a fair shake by talking to Grisoft before resorting to comparing a wildly out of date product with up to date versions of peer products. It might be of interest that Grisoft have upset the AV market by being one of the few (if not the only) players left on the pitch providing a freeware AV offering so I tend to be a little skeptical about biased reports about it when the evidence of my own experience with it is that it is deserving of better. NOD32 is acknowledged to be best of breed. That is beyond question in my own mind. AVG, while clearly not being the best, is certainly not as *in*competent as the virusbtn report suggests. Still, I defend your right to bring this stuff to our attention - thank you for doing that - and I'm enjoying the debate :-). - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.62/Beta7 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1rc1-nr1 (Windows 2000) iD8DBQE9zVy/OeQkq5KdzaARAli1AJ4oYVOIH327aj4b7xvRI/xnVJNM8wCcD7jB HajLH9tqWCkjGWmNAe3yxcU= =Z2tC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
