Anti-Malware Shootout

Norton AntiVirus 2008 Review

Ok, it’s been a long time coming but here it is.  The Norton AntiVirus 2008 Review.  I’ll be posting my comments on this one as soon as a few of you guys take a look.
Norton AntiVirus 2008 Review - Part 1 - Installing

Norton AntiVirus 2008 Review - Part 2 - Updating

Norton AntiVirus 2008 Review - [...]

Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus Review

Here is my latest review. In this review I pit Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus against 100+ pieces of Malware.
Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus was the absolute best anti-malware application that I’ve tested all year! See it for yourself!
Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus: Part1 - Install and Update

Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus: Part2 - [...]

NOD32 V3.0 Malware Removal Review

In this review we push Eset’s NOD32 V3.0 malware removal abilities to the limit. Can NOD32 remove all our malware and save the day!
Find out now!
The review is broken up into 3 parts. As always suggestions and questions are welcome.
Matt
Installing NOD32

Running NOD32

NOD32 Conclusion

Kaspersky AntiVirus 7 Review

In this review I pit Kaspersky AntiVirus 7.0.1 against a highly infected virtual machine with 100+ pieces of malware. The Kaspersky review is broken up into 3 parts (for YouTube). Writing about an AntiVirus product isn’t enough; you need to see how well (or not well) it performs under the worst possible situations…I [...]

Sad results for Avg Antivirus and Antispyware

This post pertains to the anti-malware shootout.
Avg Antivirus and AVG Antispyware both failed miserably in our infected virtual machine.
AVG antivirus took about 20 minutes to (try to) install, however at the end of the installation process the installer failed to start any services and failed to install the core AVG Antivirus files.
AVG Antispyware has a [...]

The Anti-Malware Shootout

What is the anti-malware shootout?
We take a very very infected virtual machine and try to clean it with the most popular anti-virus and anti-spyware applications. Infections include trojans, rootkits, rogue anti-malware and other misc. malware.
What is the environment?
The environment is an unpatched windows xp workstation with no antivirus or antispyware. The machine [...]