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Old 07-24-2009, 08:29 AM  
roly
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Originally Posted by KrisH View Post
I dont give a fuck about what you THINK or what some PAID blog told you to think. Its absolutely worthless when it comes to protection against anything. Set up a honeypot and you will see it finds viruses where there arent any + it dont even come close to preventing your pc from getting compromiced.
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if you get too many false positives you can turn down the heusteristic detection level, false positives are a play off against detection of unknown viruses, it's up to you but i've never found it a problem.

as far as being what some blog "told me to think" here's some results http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02 compiled by independant AV testers http://www.av-test.org/ who i'm guessing have a little more knowledge on AV testing than you. out of that list of AV programs, avira came top for malware detection.

so what do you advise as the best?

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