Quote: "Norton is not superior in any way. The difference is that Norton slows down your computer, is over bloated and full of features that don't work"
What features would that be?
AVG is immensely slow with file scans. When Norton started bundling all that extra 'security' crap with its AV, it was a mess and so I switched to Symantec corporate. It's strictly just AV software.
Just looked up some test results, NOD32 and McAfee appears to be the only AV that detected the 2 macros in the test. Oddly, MS OneCare did pretty poor in detecting Windows virii with only a 28% detection rate, which was still better than AVG's 23%. NOD32 also had 0 false positives, and stated 'fast' on-demand scanning speed, which quite different than the experience I had with NOD a year or so ago. These figures were all based on retrospective/proactive tests.
Avira AntiVir PE (never heard of it) appears to do well is most categories.
On-demand comparitive test - Aug. 2007 (new results due on march 10)
AEC TrustPort AV - 99.64% / 11
Avira AntiVir - 99.45% / 11
G Data AVK - 99.31% / 12
Norton AV - 98.8% / 12
Kaspersky - 98.46% / 12
GriSoft AVG - 97.75% / 3
ESET NOD32 - 97.6% / 12
The percentage is it's overall detection rate. The other number is how many polymorphic viruses were detected out of 12. AVG seemed lost there. And aside from also scoring about 20% lower in script viruses/malware than the top competitors above, AVG was on par with the rest in the other categories.
