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Re: NEW AV review from PCWorld.com
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2006, 06:42:41 AM »
Your right  N.Tesla , I shouldn't force my ideas on others. Norton Anti-virus 2006 here in Australia is around $300 .
Basically two things annoy me :
1. I don't like my family and friends paying so much for a piece of Sofware with dubious performance.
2. The more people infected with viruses the worse off we all are. That's my objective , a safer net for all .
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink... :(
 

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Re: NEW AV review from PCWorld.com
« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2006, 07:21:07 AM »
You must have been looking at the multi user option i think Abraxas
I didnt think it was that much

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Re: NEW AV review from PCWorld.com
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2006, 12:25:07 PM »
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink... :(
 

Exactly my point too... and even worse... you can lead that horse to water, trying to help him, and quite often he can kick you in the butt... not quite thankful IMHO, haha...  ;D
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Re: NEW AV review from PCWorld.com
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2006, 06:46:14 PM »
Cloussau :
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You must have been looking at the multi user option i think Abraxas
I didnt think it was that much
Yeah, thanks Cloussau... A family member uses NA for their business . I tried to sway them towards an Avast! solution but as  N.Tesla put's it ; " ... you can lead that horse to water, trying to help him, and quite often he can kick you in the butt..."  ;D
I'm even givng up telling people that there are such things as viruses out there.  ::)
It seems us sensible Anti-Spyware dudes are frowned upon as paranoid to casual Internet users.
 Being  passionate and  incessantly reporting the latest  dangers "If Unprotected " of being online gets responses like; "Maybe you should get out more " ...  ;D

PCWorld is just another corporate affiliate of the major Anti-Spyware companies . Shame people have to cop a load of Malware before looking for alternate software like Avast!
Such is Life  8)

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Re: NEW AV review from PCWorld.com
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2006, 02:00:04 AM »
Sorry but why is antivir on top of us?

AntiVir:
Performance: Good
• Ease of Use: Good
• Features: Fair
• Price when ranked: Free

AntiVir performed the best of the free programs, although it failed to clean several old macro viruses.

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Avast!:
• Performance: Fair
• Ease of Use: Very Good
• Features: Good
• Price when ranked: Free

Free product has a slick media-player-style interface that hides some features. Scan speed was slow in tests. (Bull$sh1t)

 ??? :-\ ::) ??? :-\ ???
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Re: NEW AV review from PCWorld.com
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2006, 04:08:09 PM »
Funniest thing is their scale:
AntiVir > avast!
Good, Good, Fair > Very Good, Good, Fair

So how comes AntiVir is the best when avast! is clearly better from these points?
And as far as i know Very Good IS better than just Good. Unless they changed english grammer lately...
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Re: NEW AV review from PCWorld.com
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2006, 08:16:49 PM »
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And as far as i know Very Good IS better than just Good. Unless they changed english grammer lately...
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