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    AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test March 2017

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Apr 13, 2017.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

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    Spartan@HIDevolution, Apr 13, 2017
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    I wish they'd test Webroot. I love how light it is, and the interface is pretty good. But I got my first false-positive. It thought the setup file for the Clevo Control Center I downloaded was malware. It's weird because it only reported it when I was compressing it into an archive.
     
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    Tried Webroot last year, would never use it again

    Yes it's light as a feather but here's the thing.......

    at first, I noticed my system was very slow, then I contacted support, they logged in to my system and whitelisted a lot of files. then my system was fast again

    then I started getting one FP after another, yes, they are helpful, they will whitelist the files in no time. but then I was thinking I am just wasting my time whitelisting this and whitelisting that. So now when I get a virus alert, I don't know if it's a real virus or an FP. no thank you. I won't work for them as a file whitelister. It's basically not an AV in my opinion if it blocks almost everything unless you whitelist it.

    They would never be in AV-Comparatives or AV-TEST as they would fail miserably
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Apr 15, 2017
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    insidemanpoker Notebook Evangelist

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    Don't these results show Bitdefender as the best service in the world? I read a lot of mixed things so what gives? Are these results also bought and paid for or something?
     
    insidemanpoker, Apr 19, 2017
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    Hmmm Avast seems to be slipping a little. Might need to re-evaluate mine
     
    yutzybrian, Apr 19, 2017
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    NOD32 FTW
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Apr 21, 2017
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