http://www.av-comparatives.org/image..._201112_en.pdf
This is a fairly comprehensive analysis of common antivirus softwares as of 2011.
It's funny though, McAfee won a "Gold" award for least amount of false positives. I guess that isn't hard when you don't get any true positives either.
The ratings are almost always rigged. On one site's ratings page was a huge ad for MucAfee.
The question remains why anyone would pay for A/V when there is a better free version unanimously recommended by the top tech site on the web.
I've been using MSE with Windows 7, and Never have had a virus, whereas my step-dad uses Norton on his Windows XP system, and has a few viruses.
And the Defender preinstalled in Win8 is actually a beefed-up MSE with its name changed - the reccommended AV here for years.
Hardly a week passes when Norton doesn't miss a serious infection reported here. Similar reports about MSE are growing very infrequent. MS literally spends unlimited funds protecting their OS. No one has a greater interest in doing so.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/image..._201112_en.pdf
This is a fairly comprehensive analysis of common antivirus softwares as of 2011.
It's funny though, McAfee won a "Gold" award for least amount of false positives. I guess that isn't hard when you don't get any true positives either.
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