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Big Name Antiviruses Aren’t Necessarily Going To Detect A Virus. Why Do Some People Dispute That?

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In the link below, it shows that all major big name antiviruses like Avira, Avast, AVG, Kasperky, nod 32, norton, etc etc failed to detect a virus. But many unknown and less popular chinese antivirus like rising were able to detect it. Only 1 big named AV, mcafee was able to detect. This is often the nature of malware. This virus that these big name companies missed was discovered in the wild on January 12, 2012. Almost 3 weeks later, still no signature developed with the exception of mcafee. I heard that at times it takes like 43 days before a signature is created by the major vendors. But from a cost analysis, rising internet security is 20 dollars an year. And the internet security of the big vendors is well over 50 dollars an year. So then how can you be sure what AV to buy?

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  1. You seek Yoda Says

    So what is your point? Anything that is just created, is not known until it is used. Of course malware gets through. It is an arms race that never ends. If I have a kid today, should I blame you for not knowing it’s name yet? The point is, what you should look for in an AV is the relative number of threats detected vs the others, and the number of false positives. No antivirus is the perfect one to have, as during some months, one might outperform another only to have that same one that it outperformed surpass it the following month. It is a matter of consistency that is most important. A Chinese company detecting ONE a single time over the others does not mean it is better. It just means that it happened to catch that particular threat earlier than the others.

  2. Dunbar Pappy®ϟϟ Says

    The Windows home user mind-set is completely inexplicable to begin with: insisting on using the most porous OS ever created to access unlimited files of doubtful origin, and turn around and use the same system to do banking, for instance.
    The only effective solution would be to require an “Internet license”: with several hours (weeks?) of training in the use of, and understanding of security measures before obtaining one of these systems to be unleashed on the ‘Net. (But then, that would open peoples eyes and Microsoft will not allow that, would they?)

  3. Dominic Says

    This is why it’s important for people to learn how to avoid virus and malware infections in the first place. No anti-virus will every be able to detect every bit of malicious software. New variants of old viruses show up everyday. It’s just not possible to catch them all.
    - Dominic

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