explained here:
“The most difficult test regimen for all security packages is the detection of malware. While the packages in the real world testing were required to detect and liquidate some 160 brand-new specimens of malicious code, the AV-TEST reference set included an additional ambuscade of 24,000 known malware threats. Among the desktop solutions, 13 of the 23 products achieved the highest point score of 6 in the Protection category! An additional 8 packages achieved 4 to 5.5 points. Only Ahnlab and Microsoft each scored a mere 0.5 points.”While the Microsoft solution is only listed here as a baseline, Ahnlab seriously needs to ramp up their security, it seems. It is in pretty dire state at the moment. A number of other charts are available at the link above, which should help you determine the best antivirus for Windows XP, if you are still rocking the retired operating system for some reason. Luckily, a lot of security software manufacturers are offering their solutions for the old OS. Most of these vendors have announced plans to support Windows XP for at least one more year.]]>
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Not sure if it’s just my computer, but I’m not seeing the picture. It is nice that there are still a good amount of anti-virus options out there for those XP stragglers.
I’m forced to say on XP on three of our roll forming machines in our shop, so this article is excellent! 🙂 I did remote (as much as I could) Internet Explorer and loaded Chrome since it still runs and is updated for XP. I want these machines off of XP for sure but the parent company of the machines refuses to do so.
Pretty nice list of options. I’ve always found AVG to be a good option. If I had XP still, that would probably be my first choice.
These antivirus programs/companies have to be so happy that security stopped form XP and the users still haven’t left. Great for business.