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Posted by Clive on November 29, 2006, 8:54 am
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Art wrote:
> The November test by AV-Test.org for PC Welt (in German):
> http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=20&pk=64946
> is surprising and confusing (to me) since the English translations
> leave much to be desired, and I have no idea how the tests
> were conducted. Perhaps someone can translate better and
> expand on the nature of the tests.
>
> Apparently, 83,000 worms, 86,000 Bots, 218,000 Trojans, and
> 79,000 Backdoors were used in this large scale test. I don't
> understand what they mean by "zwischendurch" which translates
> as "occasionally" or "now and then" or "here and there" or
> "in the meantime" or "in between" (adv).
>
> The surprise (to me) is that WebWasher scored tops, followed
> by AntiVir, AVK2007 (no surprise that this one is up there),
> Fortinet, AVK2006, Symantec, Kaspersky, F-Secure, Bitdefender,
> Norman, Avast, NOD32, AVG, McAfee, Ikarus, Trend Micro,
> Dr Web, Panda .... Using K-Meleon, clicking on the image of
> results on that page yields a large pic image of the summary
> of results.
>
> Art
> http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
Webwasher - that IS a surprise.
I've just changed from NOD32 (v2.7) to Antivir - :-)
Clive
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