Avast Home Edition is an antivirus, anti-spyware and anti-rootkit package. Daily automatic updates ensure continuous data protection. The software is offered in over 30 language versions. During th…
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This post was written by Ted on November 6, 2009
Nobody’s playing this. Anyone up for some coop online Taliban killing? I can’t get the program to work. 
Problems with your antivirus? Mine said it had spyware, it worked as soon as I put the Avast to sleep.
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Posted under Spyware in the News
This post was written by Ted on November 14, 2008
PandaLabs,
Today I've seen in Sophos blog a post about the proactive detection rate. Here you can see the results from the same test, but including the majority of the vendors, so you won't lose any information:
Scanner TOTAL July August September ======================================================= Panda 91% 97% 78% 95% AntiVir 87% 94% 74% 89% Ikarus 87% 88% 78% 92% Sophos 86% 94% 74% 87% BitDefender 81% 75% 78% 87% AVG 71% 59% 65% 84% Kaspersky 69% 59% 61% 82% Nod32 69% 56% 74% 76% Trend Micro 68% 56% 57% 84% F-Secure 67% 53% 61% 82% Symantec 66% 53% 52% 84% McAfee 55% 47% 61% 58% Avast! 53% 31% 65% 63% eTrust-VET 52% 44% 43% 63% Dr Web 51% 41% 65% 50% F-Prot 51% 28% 57% 66% Microsoft 48% 25% 65% 58% Norman 46% 44% 61% 39% ClamAV 42% 28% 39% 55%
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Posted under Malware Alerts
This post was written by Ted on January 9, 2008
