I don't see Norton in the test set while they include McAfee.

mjf said:

I don't see Norton in the test set while they include McAfee.

Norton had a hissy fit with AV-Compatibles so have not participated in the last two years. They did not like one of the test that they failed and AV-Compatibles said they would not exclude Norton from any one test. It was all or nothing, so Norton bailed.

Jim

Phone Man said:

mjf said:

I don't see Norton in the test set while they include McAfee.

Norton had a hissy fit with AV-Compatibles so have not participated in the last two years. They did not like one of the test that they failed and AV-Compatibles said they would not exclude Norton from any one test. It was all or nothing, so Norton bailed.

Jim

I see.
Bailing out is a 2 edged sword though. I still use Norton NIS along with Malwarebytes. If I had placed too much emphasis on AV-Compatibles I may have excluded both because they aren't represented. If Norton gets a legitimate bad rap I'd drop it.

I just got a new NIS 3 users for $20. I like Norton best. Although the Kaspersky results are impressive, I stopped using it because it was too messy.

ICit2lol said:

For those who are interested a fair bit of info on the latest AV Comparatives results.

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test » AV-Comparatives

Thanks for that link ICit2lol. :)

whs said:

I just got a new NIS 3 users for $20. I like Norton best. Although the Kaspersky results are impressive, I stopped using it because it was too messy.

Kaspersky's results do look impressive.

I'm using Avast, which managed to scrape into the Top Ten (9th place).

Hmm well I have used Kaspersky for the last four years and apart from a slow load on the laptop it works just great. Am not keen on the new settings / GUI but for the money such good value.

Frankly I am surprised by the result of the McAfee.

whs said:

I just got a new NIS 3 users for $20. I like Norton best. Although the Kaspersky results are impressive, I stopped using it because it was too messy.

I have been using Norton for the last 4 years and just re-upped for another year this week. They have been a good product but new management have pissed off some of their customers with changes to their ID Safe vault. They also had a lot of bugs with their 2013 version (ver 20) but finally got them worked out just before releasing the 2014 version (ver 21). They really screwed up the ID Safe vault on 2014 and have a few minor bugs with it. I am staying with 2013 for now and see how the 2014 version works out.

Jim

ICit2lol said:

Hmm well I have used Kaspersky for the last four years and apart from a slow load on the laptop it works just great. Am not keen on the new settings / GUI but for the money such good value.

Frankly I am surprised by the result of the McAfee.

As far as I can remember McAfee has always been go at stopping infection. The problem has been it's also good at stopping Windows 7 from working.