I hope this will make Symantec stop spreading misinformation!

It depends if certain reviewers are in the pockets of Symantec or not!!! :smiley:

Here’s one for a start:
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201038/6191/Comodo-vs-Symantec-Who-offers-the-best-Malware-defense

Sep 23 2010

Old news.

The best I could wish right now.
I can post a link to the av-test page but if I link to the Comodo press release I won’t be taken seriously… What can I do…

Yes but it shows how reviews focus on different features of software, so give their ratings based on what they think is important and not necessarily on protection capability.

Protection is what the AV Test was testing and that is the most important thing. The rest is for clean-up tools after an av has let something install.

we will make the PDF of the report public today.

Melih

Thanks Melih.

Enclosed zip file contains PDF report.

Thanks
-umesh

EDIT: Added pdf file also. for some reasons forums was not allowing pdf file format earlier.

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as you can see, Free Security product is not just as good, but better than the Paid $$$ security product in this test!

I hope Symantec will publicly apologize for misleading consumers.

Melih

In the case of Norton: “Executable remains, Registry: start entry remains”.
Does it mean the malware will automatically start again after reboot?
Also, LOL @ “Hosts file remains changed” :slight_smile:

Congratulation Melih, you won the challenge!!

Thank you for providing this nice product for free.
Now we only need a link to the PDF so that we can show it to people easily.

Regards

Excellent result. But what about removal of malware? Just leave it on the system for ever? 88)

I think that files that are sandboxed are automatically sent to Comodo for analysis, so eventually Comodo AV will detect the files and delete them.

Detection is not the same as removal. Doesn’t this mean cleaning of an infected system?

I think what happened is that they had a 30 samples. Then they transferred them to the system. The AV removed the ones it could find. Then the left over ones were ran. They were blocked but CIS does not delete the original executable that was transferred over. Though you can do it, anything that was ran in sandbox all you would have to do is open the UI, in the summary tab under D+ click the number in unrecognized files. In the new windows select all of them and click delete file. That will remove all of the original executables that were run in sandbox.

Congratulations!

I think they would say nothing… Typical of arrogant position of Symantec.

at languy99,
i think this is a proud moment for you.you have silenced all your critics.you were the first one to come out with a test and you told the truth to the world, well some one ignored it, some one hated it. Now every one knows the truth and all those fanboys of norton can just pretend that they have never heard about such a test …all troll news…etc etc…ha ha.keep it up Comodo and keep it up languy99. :-TU

Thank you!

Be good if it tracked all the dropped files to, like Geswall.

Cheers
Shaun

I never said anything about dropped files, I said the original executable. If there was a dropped file I would assume they would have said so.