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O.P. RE: Odd Request: I want Some Viruses
i am no expert in testing AVs, and my test was pretty 'shallow' (i used 4 viruses downloaded from kazaa-lite with keyword "sex") although my test initially was to check the effiency of auto-protect features, all my four candidates acted instantly (norton 2005, symantec corp. 8.0, mcafee enterprise 8.0i, nod32)
yet it seems that mcafee has the most thorogh virus definitions as it caugh the 4 viruses i downloaded. nod32 caught 3. norton\symantec surprisingly caught only 2!!
so to brief it up, i dumped norton and changed to mcafee!!
nod32's definitions were back to december 2004, this might have been one reason it didnt detect it.
mcafee's defitinitions were march 2005.
norton's definitions were april 2005, so it got no excuse at all!!!
note that the viruses were not detected in my tests using both automatic and manual scans!! all options were optimized for maximum protection, including herutics which didnt even act after i ran the viruses!
This post was edited on 04-16-2005 at 10:32 PM by zaidgs.
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