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Old 03-02-2012, 07:12 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Blitztech View Post
Honestly, I would choose neither of them. I have had bad experiences with products from both companies. And it was 10yrs ago when my family stopped using Norton products, because our brand new computer got infected within 30days after we bought it. Norton has gotten better though, McAfee is just a tad lower on the scale than Norton though.

If you want to know what I am talking about, view the stuff below it will provide some helpful information.

Internet Security Tests and Comparisons run by Matousec
   

Security products on a 64bit Windows7 platform:
http://www.matousec.com/projects/pro...64/results.php

Security products on a 32bit Windows platform:
http://www.matousec.com/projects/pro...ge/results.php

On both those tests, Norton provided better protection against the threats they tested for.


Tests ran by AV-Comparatives
   

Anti-Virus performance tests:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...e_nov_2011.pdf

As you can see from that test, Norton had less impact on the system than McAfee did in almost all of the tests.


On-Demand Anti-Virus Scan test (right click scans through Windows Explorer)
http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...od_aug2011.pdf


Whole Product "Real World" testing
http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...t2011_2_en.pdf


The tests from AV-Comparatives, normally just test out the protection of a products Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware engines. I usually go with the Matousec ratings because it tests everything within a product against many infections that plague normal everyday users.


I hope that helps you a bit LD-Skipper.
Alrighty. Thank you for the links.
My PC has not yet been infected by anything. XD
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