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G Data 2010 Internet Security Review – Install, Config and Prevention.
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Nice review Matt
By the way, I’m pretty sure:
Engine A= Bitdefender
Engine B= Avast.
Nice review. Great results.
Good review.
Good review Matt.
Also, Engine A is Bitdefender, and Engine B is Avast.
wow it blocked every thing like norton internet security 2009 did and yea it dose show the cpu thing just like norton dose lol.
Matt,
Great review! Congratulations!
In fact GData is excellent on detecting malwares.
What’s your opinion about overall impact computer performance with GData?
I’ve read GData consumes lots of memory and makes your computer work slower. What do you say?
In my case I use a combo with Sandboxie and Avira Personal Free and my computer runs fast. Thanks in advance!
@thehumanantivirus Engine A and Engine B are maybe Avast! and BitDefender antivirus Engines
Matt:
I looked forward to this review and was not disappointed. How much of a drain GData inflicts on a computer. Would GData 2010, Norton IS 2009, or ESET Smart Security 4 be a better all-in-one solution for someone playing a game (i.e. like World of Warcraft) on a modern machine (i.e. Intel i7 with a recent GPU)?
Great review Matt – Many thanks
Matt
Excellent review. Also watched your review of Avira 9 Free on YouTube – excellent, as well. Just added your site to my Favorite Antivirus links. Many thanks
I’ve been using this product for a while (also previous versions) and this version is actually quite light – it certainly doesn’t slow my pc (which is by far not a brand new powerful machine).
WILL G DATA EVER COME TO THE STORES IN THE US ?
I run Total Care 3 pc license in our house and it runs on my laptop without any problems, it is really easy to use, and set up parentla controls for the kids pc, and their gaming, ideal for our mixed business and homelife needs. better than any others i have brought in previous years.
I think Engine A- Avast, engine B- Bitdefender
Nice Review btw
I was a bigfan of G-DATA (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ar9eSWoBi_ApsRSqmFBlenEjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20090710143659AAXPIF1) few months ago. I made copule of my friends buy the 3 user Total security and since then they ‘d been complaining a lot and 3 of the users have completely unistalled it with in 2 months. My friend who actually ordered it was initially very happy about its performence, but he is now skeptic because he thinks G Data corrupted his Vista OS and he is reinstalling the OS. He may not install G-Data again and may be would never ask my advice again. Believe me he used to trust me a lot before on this issues and now he rarely approaches me. I feel guilty and bad. But from my own experience I liked it the most and mioght give a try again this year. anyway I sincerely hope G-Data do something about crashing the OS(false positives I believe) and gain their valuable customer base.
I’m testing GDATA Internet Security 2010 at home. One thing I noticed while researching is that it doesn’t include anti-keylogger technology? I wonder if that’s important, or if the extensive scanning engines, which are updated often, will likely include new keyloggers very quickly? Should I worry?
Second, I was playing around with the Eicar test file to test GDATA and its ability to detect viruses already on the hard drive. I turned GDATA’s “monitor” off, downloaded Eicar, and let it sit on my desktop. When I started GDATA again, it ran for several minutes and didn’t see the file. I eventually double-clicked to run it, and GDATA caught it. Surely a scan would have caught it, but I have grown comfortable with other programs that find stuff by themselves.
Third, GDATA tech support needs to rework its website to serve its English customers better. When filling out a tech report question, the pull-downs don’t even include the option to choose a 2010 version of their product (only 2009), or Windows 7 as an OS. GDATA does support Windows 7, so obviously they need to update their help pages.
Also, it’s been 24 hours and no support response from them about my questions (other than the initial notification that my e-mail was received).
I ended up dumping GDATA. I found it did seem to slow my browser experience… not always, just every so often. It also seemed to have some sort of conflict with the Intel Turbo Boost on my CORE I5 CPU. It started maxing-out the turbo boost with nothing going on. When I’d try to get in and see what processes were happening, Turboboost would magically fix itself for a while. This issue took several hours to appear, and happened more easily after coming out of sleep states.
Also, GDATA has a quick little pop-up that happens in the bottom right corner whenever it scans parts of websites. It was driving me nuts, and there seemed to be no way to turn it off. Again, no response from GDATA as to this concern, and a few others.
I am now trying the new Avast, and it appears to be a far smoother product.