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Street price as of 11/7/07 - Expensive: $87 for use on up to three PCs
Solid as download, retail box, or both - Download
Performance - Very Good Detection of WildList threats during user scan - 100% Real-time detection of WildList threats - 100% Detection of back doors - 98% Detection of bots/zombies - 97% Detection of Trojan horses - 98% Detection of worms - 97% Detection of adware - 98% Detection of spyware (banking-related) - 96% Detection of spyware (password-stealing) - 98% Heuristic detection (one-month-old signatures) - 21% Heuristic detection (two-month-old signatures) - 18% Detection of false positives - 0.02% Outbreak response time - About 2 to 4 hours Scan speed of on-demand scanner - 10.33 megabytes per second Copy speed of 723MB file with real-time detection enabled - 9.15 megabytes per second Disinfection of malware files and Registry entries - 40% Detection of inactive rootkits - 67% Detection of active rootkits - 67% Removal of active rootkits - 67% <B>Behavior-based detection</b> Behavioral and other kinds of detection (like heuristics) - 80% Pure behavior-based detection and blocking - 0% Prevention and detection of malware files - 40% Prevention and detection of malware files with removal of Registry values - 0% Incorrectly flagged changes made by Adobe Reader 8.01 - No Incorrectly flagged changes made by DaemonTools 4 - No Incorrectly flagged changes made by Google Desktop - Yes, but action could be denied Incorrectly flagged changes made by Microsoft Office 2007 - No Incorrectly flagged changes made by Windows Update - No
Firewall All ports closed - No All ports stealth - No
Specifications Download/package or both - Download Size of virus-definition files (including the scan engine) - 16.65 MB Incremental update size (update was performed after seven days) - 2.35 MB Antivirus - Yes Antispyware - Yes Firewall - Yes Firewall avoided unnecessary pop-up alerts - No Antispam - Yes Antispam: Outlook plug-in - No Antispam: Outlook Express plug-in - No Antispam: Windows Mail plug-in - No Antispam: Thunderbird plug-in - No Web-based Antiphishing - No IM traffic support - No Parental controls - No Data privacy features - No File backup - No Wi-Fi network protection - No E-mail scans:pop3 - Yes E-mail scans:smtp - No E-mail scans:imap - No Log report (Basic, Comprehensive, or Poor) - Comprehensive Auto-scan of USB drives - Yes Default system scan scheduled - No
Support policies U.S. phone support - No Toll-free phone number - N/A Paid phone support - N/A Cost of paid phone support - N/A Weekday support hours - 0 Saturday support hours - 0 Sunday support hours - 0 E-mail support - Yes Live chat - No