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Re: Rising AV experinces [somwhat OT]

Subject: Re: Rising AV experinces [somwhat OT]
From: hummingbird
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:20:40 +0100
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware


On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:11:58 +0000 (UTC)  'badgolferman'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
>Most tests I've seen rank it middling in performance.  I'd certainly
>consider Rising over ClamAV.
>http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/03_13a.xml
>
>I will not be so quick to dismiss Rising AV merely because of its
>Chinese background or recommendation from Bear Bottoms.  Many of the
>leading AV products are from former Communist countries.  My only
>contention is the recommendation of the product based upon the GUI and
>footprint rather than its main purpose, detecting and cleaning malware.
>So far Bear's recommendation of this product hasn't touched upon its
>performance that I can see.

But don't forget the article that Root Kit posted a few weeks ago
written by the CEO of TrendMicro(?) in which he admited that most 
AV products are a waste of time.


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   and third, it is accepted as self-evident"
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