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Imagine that! Their tests showed their program was the best. :rolleyes:

WRONG. The posting was by Eset, but it was taken from The Virus Bulletin website. I am a subscriber and saw this on the VB website myself. Eset are regularly one of the top AV programs. If my memory serves me correctly, their last failure was in 2002. :D

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I too subscribe to Virus Bulletin and an aware that NOD32 leads the parade year after year.

For the past 3 years I have used AVG free anti virus - which has bad statistics over the period shown in the summary andsome posted.

Closer look at the tests reveals that most of the failures were before 2004 - there have only been 3 failures since then - two because in each case it detected one false positive and in the third case the test was carried out a day or so before a virus it missed was corrected in the normal update. This is an example of needing to look beyond the raw figures.

I am happy to stay with AVG because I have not yet ever been infected by malware - but would review this policy and move to NOD32 if disaster should ever befall me. I just cannot justify spending £23 per year on something I don't feel that I need.

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