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Comodo vs Symantec
Background
It all began with the following statement by a product manager at Symantec in an article in the Guardian, Can you protect your computer for free?:
Comodo CEO, Melih Abdulhayoglu, responded with Symantec continues its scaremongering against Free Anti Virus Products and a Challenge to Symantec from Comodo CEO!Thesis David Hall, a product manager at Symantec: "If you are only relying on free anti-virus in this modern age, you are not getting the protection you need to be able to stay clean and have a reasonable chance of avoiding identity theft … free anti-virus is not enough: you need in-depth layered technologies, which only come from the more mature paid suites."
Results (?)
According to Melih, I hope you will now stop spreading misinformation Symantec!, Comodo won the challenge.
Interestingly, the link that Melih posted in his blog goes not to the test results but merely to AV-Test.org · Tests of Anti-Virus- and Security-Software. So, what shows up at AVTest.org? How about recent tweets by avtestorg:
Note that the so-called results posted by AVTest.org go the Comodo website, “AV-Test's Paid Vs. Free” AV Product Comparison Shows Comodo Scores Better Than Norton/Symantec at Protecting the Computer and It’s Free.Comodo challenges Symantec to antivirus showdown Comodo Challenges Symantec to Antivirus Showdown | News & Opinion | PCMag.com - the results of the Comodo-commissioned AV-Test: “AV-Test's Paid Vs. Free” AV Product Comparison Shows Comodo Scores Better Than Norton/Symantec at Protecting the Computer and It’s Free
- Then we have this little same-day tweet by avtestorg at Twitter
Comodo has joined AV-Test’s full product review and certification program - final showdown results will be available by January 2011
I've searched the avtest.org site and cannot find the actual results. The closest I come is the PCMag article, Comodo: 'We Beat Norton!', which states:
CommentA closer look at the detailed results reveals that there's more to the story. The test shows that both Comodo and Norton detected and warned about 100 percent of the threats, though Norton got just 90 percent for the "Overall Detection and Blocking Rate". Comodo didn't mention that for the "Overall Detection, Blocking and Removal (Cleaning) Rate" their product scored 53 percent to Norton's 80 percent.
Have I mentioned that I have no intentions of ever installing a Comodo product on any computer I own?