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[bovi]

Correction: 98%.

Correction: That figure is not detection rate. It is rate of successful removal of what it does detect.

[Drewski]

Correction: That figure is not detection rate. It is rate of successful removal of what it does detect.

Very true. Nothing detects anywhere near 98% of malware.

@AP:- Just have a breeze through forums like "TechSupportGuy". It oftens takes 6 or more different AV products thrown at a problem to find it.

I had a serious PC problem earlier in the year, which only symptom was that I couldn't access ANY AV sites on the net....12 (I kid you not) different AV programs were thrown at the problem, nothing found anything (including Kasp, and all the big names)..to cut a long story short, a free program called DR Web found it eventually, a whole nasty package including keylogger, screen recorder, false browser etc..

It was so new, that nothing "professional" knew anything about it. Just a freeware program. It was eventually addressed in Mcsofts's next security patch.

Personally, I run Spyware Doctor, AVG and Zone Alarm. (I used to use Norton, which is the biggest pain in the ass when it comes to false positives, it kept insisting that regular traffic between My PC and ISP was an intrusion attack). I custom scan at least once a day, and scan with at least 4 different AV/AS engines once a week)...If I don't get at least 1 or 2 potential problems a fortnight, I start to get concerned stuff isn't working properly

[Cute Wolf]

The best antivirus, antimalware ever....
I usually use only avg + firefox, but when I think something is wrong with my comp, I'll just go to my friend (which is some kind of weird guy that usually spend much of his time workin with programming language... IT students)... and say... "Could you repair my comp for a bowl of meatballs?"

And everything goes fine...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You can guess he was a hacker: hacker wanna be, still learning... have a friend like him is useful when you don't understand much about comp...

[Maion Maroneios]

The best antivirus, antimalware ever....
I usually use only avg + firefox, but when I think something is wrong with my comp, I'll just go to my friend (which is some kind of weird guy that usually spend much of his time workin with programming language... IT students)... and say... "Could you repair my comp for a bowl of meatballs?"

And everything goes fine...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You can guess he was a hacker: hacker wanna be, still learning... have a friend like him is useful when you don't understand much about comp...

Oh, I know exactly what you mean. Same goes for me

Maion

[Silence Hunter]

For me even the instant noodles works well, because my flatmates (unfortunately) are all IT students so it creates a competition between them for my offer, thus decreasing my expenses lol. That's probably the only good thing I can say about them. No offence to any IT students here, I just got a really horrible sample..

[Cute Wolf]

IT students are really the best antivirus, antihacker, and tweaker possible..... Thanks for any IT students in the org!!!

[iounas]

IT students are really the best antivirus, antihacker, and tweaker possible..... Thanks for any IT students in the org!!!

lol, I am one.. so I dont use any av software..
If you know anything about computers and internet/trusted sources and have a bunch of antivirus software occupying your ram and stealing your cpu cycles then the 'terrorists' have already won.