Six new designs for the Robo-pirates!

[Rayman9930]

This I like a lot. My personality resembles fire.

[Joshua822]

The MSE database is large enough, and it still have a better detection rate than AVG, so it can compete. MSE have not been the only security software that Microsoft have developed. But I can agree that NOD32 is better than MSE, except for completely removal of malware pieces and leftovers, but is not free. And Antivir have the largest database, but have a bad detection rate, because it reports so many false positives.

Source ? Here's an independent review which I'm partly basing myself on. According to AV-Test's tests MSE does pretty well, but AVG and others do a little better.

Anyway, it's the sacrifice you wish to make where it all comes down to. If you value performance more then security, choose MSE, but if you value security more, choose for AVG Free, Avast!, Antivir, NOD32 or others i might have forgot.

[Rayman9930]

I'll try Avast out and report here later.

[Matyuv]

...report here later.

Don't bother

[bunnieblaster]

Why is the discussion now about virus scanners? Do that in another topic.

[PowerPatrick]

Source ? Here's an independent review which I'm partly basing myself on. According to AV-Test's tests MSE does pretty well, but AVG and others do a little better.

Some of my sources was:
http://av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews
http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_ ... Essentials

And here is where AV-Tests have a more positive review:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... _the_grade

But your sources review is not consistent with others. AV-Tests results are really mixed I see. First they claim its good and then its okay, and then its bad. And I dont see anything from 2009 or 2010 in their publications. Your source also tells, where AV-Tests said that MSE do not include "Dynamic Behavior-based Detection", which it in fact do have: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/For ... 5b4ab338d3

If you value performance more then security, choose MSE, but if you value security more, choose for AVG Free, Avast!, Antivir, NOD32 or others i might have forgot.

AVG and Antivir only have very basic rootkit protection now in the free editions for obvious reasons, while MSE and Avast rather have full rootkit protection built-in. At all, I'm talking about having both security and performance, in such freeware applications. And MSE is one of those, but not only one, that offers both if we exclude the fact that it's free. NOD32 and the rest are still not free security solutions.

But I agree we should stop this discussion, because we aren't going anywhere, and it's way too off-topic. This was my last post about this.

[Rayman9930]

Go on talking about new Robo-pirate designs. Avast was fine, Matyuv.

[iHeckler9]

This is hilarious.

[Rayman9930]

What's funny about this? People go off topic all the time.

[PowerPatrick]

What's funny about this? People go off topic all the time.

I think he means the fad with the manipulated Robo-Pirates.

[Rayman9930]

Well we gotten so off topic here, I've forgotten.

[Haruka]

I had a laugh attack at the Obama one.

I must think in a design, this is fun.