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I've been watching AVG out of the corner of my eye for a couple of years now. I've noted far fewer false positives this
year than the year before. So that's an improvement. And 7.0 does seem to be just plain all around better. I still
feel they are playing catch-up but are very quickly in the last year actually catching up. The whole game is going to
change in the next few years anyway
Incidentally in a private newsfeed that I subscribe to of AV professionals (I don't claim to be an expert but I do
monitor the experts and have dabbled in the arcane science of virus protection) the same sentiments are mirrored. AVG
has representation in that newsfeed also. The purpose of the newsfeed is to privately distribute AV information on new
viruses before it gets to the public so that updates can be made before the script kiddies can make copies of the latest
and greatest.
IMO I feel that AVG and CA (eTrust) both can improve their scanning engines. I think AVG will make the next leap. It's
harder to do than one might think BTW. McAfee and Norton are both a bit faster yet that has introduced some
peculiarities. None of which I wish to discuss.
Note that yesterday they released the news that SHA1 may have a flaw. Not a very serious one but one that could be a
backdoor over the next year or so to machine security. Certainly to National Security. If I recall correctly something
like 2000 computers could in 16 years crack a SHA1 message. Feel secure? I can think of many governments and companies
that have well over 2000 free computers to put to the task. And then there are the new supercomputers that are just
coming online that could make much shorter work of that task. As they used to say in the NSA - Code breakers get
better, never worse.
--
....Carl Frisk
Anger is a brief madness.
- Horace, 20 B.C.
http://www.carlfrisk.com
"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message news:TifRd.2924$kU3.2814@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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> "Quilljar"
>> AVG seems to be
>> much easier to work, and mine updates every day automatically and
> smoothly.
>
> Hum... a little research shows PC Magazine giving Norton Antivirus 2005 -
> 4.5 stars and Editor's Choice.
> They gave AVG Anti-Virus 6.0 - 2 stars and didn't review AVG Anti-Virus 7.0.
>
>
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1738,4796,00.asp
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> Dallas
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