I’ve read sooo many Anti-Virus Reviews on the Net and I have found the only thing consistent about them … is their inconsistency. ;D The results vary all over the entire spectrum. Depending on the sources, ANY Anti-Virus can find themselves at the TOP … Middle of the Pack … or at the Bottom of the Barrel, Bottom of the Totem Pole if you read enough Reviews. I’ve seen Reviews that have avast! Beating the Snot Out of the Big Boys, McAfee, Norton and the like. Then other Reviews have it as some amateurish, unreliable Cellar Dweller. Some Reviews will have avast! Smacking around, Kicking Sand in AVG’s face … and other Reviews will have the exact opposite. ???
Well this from Gizmo’s newsletter is pretty relevant, you should use good security practices to help in securing your system.
Today I'm going to tell you the security products I use but I'm going to start by telling you they are not all that important.
That’s because the main way I protect my PC is not with good security products but rather with good security practices.
I regard protecting your PC from infection to be analogous to crossing a busy road unharmed. Stepping onto the road is like logging on to the internet. Crossing safely is like avoiding infection; you don’t want to get hit.
Now there are two ways of crossing that road:
The first way is to be very careful about where you cross and to be watchful and aware of the dangers. In other words, make sure you don’t get hit.
Another approach is to protect yourself with something like an army tank and cross anywhere, anytime. If you get hit, you rely on the tank to protect you.
Now no sensible person would adopt the latter approach to crossing a road, yet when it comes to computer security that’s exactly what most folks do.
“Hey man, I’m using the latest McNortsky Super Security suite and nine other security scanners. I can do anything I want on the net and I’m invincible”
Sorry baby, you are not. You are the guy in the tank crossing the road who’s about to get trashed by a big interstate semi.
I know. I’ve witnessed that accident many times.
If you want real computer security, you need to adopt safe computing practices. Like the rules of road safety we teach our kids, these practices are simple and well known. You can find them here:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/how-to-secure-your-pc.php
With all respect, the virus.gr tests are well-known in the AV community as nothing but rubbish.
Their methodology is seriously flawed, and the results generally have no meaning.