Re: Which Anti Virus Works Best With Vista

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I guess you did not bother to read the About Us section of that site:

About Us
For over a decade, ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, has been the security industry's central authority for research, intelligence, and certification testing of products. ICSA Labs sets standards for information security products and certifies over 95% of the installed base of anti-virus, firewall, IPSec VPN, cryptography, SSL VPN, network IPS, anti-spyware and PC firewall products commonly deployed in the world today.


What this shows is that McAfee failed the monthly Virus Detection test that the lab runs: i.e. it did not detect all of the virus/malware that are required for a ICSA certificate, which means that a number of organizations, including state and federal, will not trust it.

For US Army Signal Corps, McAfee use to be the most trusted. Not in the last 5 years though.

It seems that you are just arguing and not debating. You have given no basis for your reasoning other than word of mouth suppositions because you could not work one program's network connection.

I can appreciate your own opinion, but that is most of what it seems you are passing on. As you have proven, I could pass you links with reviews from independent labs all over the world, and probably even he ISSA, and you would stick to your guns over one program. That is your right and your choice.

Personally, I will stick with what I know from a very diverse experience over the past 25 years and from the techs and developers that I work with on a daily basis.

Have a great weekend.

ShadoShyrke
(AKA James Walker)


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"ShadoShryke" <greyhwk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:530DB2A6-C4D0-4FED-A7E1-949A3BDFD2E5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To support my assertions on the possibilities of McAfee not paying attention or catching something, please look over this information from ICSA
http://www.icsalabs.com/icsa/topic.php?tid=d3a8$95695e0b-40700fe6$8dd1-8fc093ea

This has gone on for three years now with McAfee. The user interface is easier that some other AVs and Security software, but the actually effectiveness of the work done has to be up to par.

ShadoShyrke
(AKA James Walker)

That link means nothing to me. It says McAfee failed some test from a division of Verizon with no reason given. The conclusion is Verizon hates McAfee for some unknown reason, though according to their other page (http://www.icsalabs.com/icsa/product.php?tid=dfgdf$gdhkkjk-kkkk) they certified it anyway?
I don't see anywhere that says what ICSA stands for either.
If you're trying to debate, try something more than "some unknown and likely biased company claims your product failed a test".


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