Avira vs. Microsoft Security Essentials - a practical test
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shamrin @ 4th Nov 05:14PM:
Avira vs. Microsoft Security Essentials - a practical test
I've been using Avira for quite some time now to disinfect customer computers (with good results) and I've been curious about how MSE stacks up to it. I had a badly virused drive and a little time today so I decided to run my own test of MSE. For anyone who wants science, I recommend AV-Comparatives, but for my purposes a practical comparison was sufficient.
The drive had been reportedly compromised on Monday with a fresh dose of a Fake Anti-Virus and his friends. The infection was bad enough that it wouldn't respond to Malwarebytes or Combofix and as usual Task Manager was disabled, the installed Norton was trashed and all the other nonsense.
For the test, I ran Avira against the drive on Tuesday and MSE against the image of the original drive on Wednesday (thus giving MSE an advantage, I know, hey life isn't fair). The result was that MSE found 22 infections and Avira 19.
This was certainly not scientific enough to make me abandon Avira, but it was definitely an eye opener and suggests to me that MSE is a respectable piece of kit.
You can read more details here: »blog.crosbydrive.com/?p=103
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Cudni @ 4th Nov 07:02PM:
Re: Avira vs. Microsoft Security Essentials - a practical test
Nice write-up
Cudni
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jerry666 @ 5th Nov 08:37AM:
Re: Avira vs. Microsoft Security Essentials - a practical test
How was Avira set up ? Just default settings or did you turn up all settings to high ?
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shamrin @ 5th Nov 09:15AM:
Re: Avira vs. Microsoft Security Essentials - a practical test
said by jerry666 :
How was Avira set up ? Just default settings or did you turn up all settings to high ?
I had to check to make sure because I thought I had turned up the detection levels but I have not. The AHeAD detection on Avira is set to the default of "Medium". MSE was configured with the defaults as well.
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