Note that Avira Free and AVG right up there with the heavy hitters.
Note that my percentage of AVG, Avira, Norton infected systems is still greater that the Avast ones by a good percentage. Down I feel to webshield ;D
I wondered if you were keeping stats on infected systems. Keep up the good work!
What about firewalls? Keeping stats on those?
The real eye opener in this test is Comodo’s IS performance. That is the whole she-bang; firewall, Defense+, and AV. Parallels my testing with it - one big POC.
To be honest firewalls do not really come into the equation
The probability of someone hacking into your system is a tad remote. The larger problem is stuff going out, again this is where webshield excells. And the bit I like about that over HIPS is there is no do you want this ? It just kills it dead
If I noticed that Avast was become more prone to attack than the others trust me I would scream ;D
Well, I just got done shaking down Privatefirewall and I absolutely love it. I am running with max. settings on everything and nothing inbound or outbound gets through. Once properly trained, the only alerts I get are for truly suspicious stuff. The thing I like best is the processes detected log. Every sniffer, write protected reg.,manipulate protected storage, open process/thread entry is there for analysis.
There are a few bugs in it like a few borked firewall rules but nothing earth shattering.