So.You Thought were safe..

[airbee]

Came across this depthy firewall test site - and as it gave some pause for thought, passed it on for interest.
;-) Cheers. Iain
http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewa ... esults.php

[Nigel H-J]

"WOW",now that is interesting, just look and see where Norton and Mcafee end up on that list. :o Surprised?... or not!!

Should be a website run like that all of the time with anti-virus etc included, then it would kick-start and shame some companies into improving their software.

After-all, when you buy a product you at least expect it to do the job that you have paid for it to do.

Nigel.

[TSR2]

You really have to be very careful with comparison sites... wether it be for motor insurance or anti virus... its very rare to find someone who hasn't got an axe to grind or indeed is getting "incentives" from one company or other.

I'm not saying its the case in this example, just tread carefully.

[airbee]

Yep. Would agree absolutely XR'..
What caught my attention and to my mind gives the results their credibility was that they state its their mission, as a research consultancy, to openly test all prods in depth and share the results openly both with the wider audience and individual vendors together with vendors responses.
Their results also appear to be the measurement of a Cumulative test based on a list of Independent and unique testing suites. I say all this i am no exopert in this mind bending field! :roll:

[Chris Trott]

One thing to be careful of (and AVG points out) is that many protection suites are just that - suites. They are not designed to operate stand-alone and when they do, they look artificially incapable. If they tested these suites as such, I wonder how they'd perform?

[DispatchDragon]

Glad to see Kaspersky is in the top four