Did you know that the French assign a gender to everything, and I do mean everything, even inanimate objects? A house, for example, is female, “la maison“, while a book is male, “le livre“. It got me to wondering how the heck the French decide […]
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This topic always has and almost always will elicit a healthy debate. However, in my opinion, there ain’t no such animal. Why? Because, as well as choices being entirely subjective, it also depends largely on each each individual user’s level of computer competency – horses
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The free antivirus market has been dominated for years by several well known and popular names, it’s also an area where new products traditionally struggle to make any impact. The one exception in recent times is probably Panda Security, whose free cloud-based antivirus has not
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For some time now, Microsoft’s antivirus has not scored well in lab tests. So much so that several labs have taken to using Microsoft’s performance as a baseline measurement – if you can’t beat the baseline, you’re essentially nowhere. However, with the latest round of
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I’m presenting this article in response to a recent question on the DCT forum asking which antivirus programs are best. What follows then is a guide to the best free and commercial antivirus products available. Of course, this is merely my opinion based on reputation
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An antivirus program is not something we tend to change very often but, when we do, it’s important to make sure the existing antivirus software is completely removed from the system. This is not always easy to achieve as antivirus programs tend to add components
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Chinese antivirus vendor Qihoo has been caught out cheating on lab testing by submitting altered versions of its software running AV engines from rival Bitdefender. As a result, the three major testing labs – Virus Bulletin, AV-Comparatives, and AV-Test – have revoked all certifications awarded
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AV-Test is best known for its ongoing evaluation of antivirus protection and usability but just recently the German lab shifted gear and, instead of measuring how well antivirus protects our data and devices, decided to look into how effective these products are at protecting themselves.
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The following is obviously aimed at less experienced users, but I would urge experienced users to also read – if only the final message at the conclusion. I’ve lost count of the number of client’s machines I’ve worked on where the resident antivirus is either
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Respected test lab AV-Test has just released its latest set of results for popular antivirus solutions. Testing involves 23 products in a Windows 7 environment. *If your antivirus is not included, it means the vendor/developer did not submit its product for testing. So let’s take
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