Internet security revisited...

Interesting article in the June PC World magazine, wringing out the various firewall/AV/Spyware protection components. http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,115939,00.asp

I happily abandoned Norton's resource hogging some months back in favor if AVG, but in what seems to be pretty thorough testing, AVG did great with Win32 based threats, which are generally what you see in email based attacks, but did surprisingly horrible at detecting trojans, which have long been one of the focuses of AV software. I've always relied on my AV software to cover both, and don't feel comfortable with just AVG after seeing their results.

Looks like time to go shopping again.

 

Hey there Gary, how are ya!!

That's interesting, I've never heard anything bad about AVG, and it's what I use exclusively. Did that article happen to mention AntiVir?

 

No, they didn't test that one. Would be nice to see a complete comparison of everything available, but that's hard to come by.

 

I noticed Ad-aware and Spybot are the top anti-spyware apps.


Who woulda thunk it!