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Gene E. Bloch
My experience with magazine reviews of AV software is that every AV
program is ranked in first place by *some* magazine *somewhere*, and
conversely, every AV program is ranked in last place by *some* magazine
*somewhere*. Usually not by the same magazine, at least
I exaggerate, but only a little. Anyway, it ends up being very
discouraging to try to make a decision.
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Juan Wei
Gene E. Bloch has written on 9/9/2013 8:48 PM:
and find out the strengths and weaknesses of the program being
evaluated.
I know. It's especially difficult if you don't actually read the articleMy experience with magazine reviews of AV software is that every AV
program is ranked in first place by *some* magazine *somewhere*, and
conversely, every AV program is ranked in last place by *some* magazine
*somewhere*. Usually not by the same magazine, at least
I exaggerate, but only a little. Anyway, it ends up being very
discouraging to try to make a decision.
and find out the strengths and weaknesses of the program being
evaluated.
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Ken Blake
My experience with magazine reviews of AV software is that every AV
program is ranked in first place by *some* magazine *somewhere*, and
conversely, every AV program is ranked in last place by *some* magazine
*somewhere*. Usually not by the same magazine, at least
I'll be even stronger than you. I very much distrust magazine reviews.
Magazines make most of their money from advertisers, so I assume that
the more some company advertises, the better its reviews are.
Also I used to have a young woman working for me whose previous job
had been for a PC magazine (PC Review, I think, but it's been long ago
enough that I'm not sure). She didn't write reviews all by herself,
but she helped to write them. She had some strengths, but knowledge of
PCs wasn't one of them. She couldn't even spell PC.
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Gene E. Bloch
Au contraire. Totalmente au contraire.Gene E. Bloch has written on 9/9/2013 8:48 PM:
I know. It's especially difficult if you don't actually read the article
and find out the strengths and weaknesses of the program being
evaluated.
1. Within a review, the comments about the products often are strikingly
inconsistent with the grades or rankings given to the respective
products.
2. The strengths and weaknesses of a product in one review are
characterized totally differently (or inconsistently) in the next review
of it.
The more carefully one reads, the less consistency one finds.
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Gene E. Bloch
Luckily she (apparently) had an editor who could spell that
Unfortunately, even if one optimistically ascribes a degree of honesty
to the reviewers, one[1] must question their perception and
understanding - or at least their spelling abilities.
[1] *This* one, anyway
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Stan Brown
" 'You speak for me also,' said Galdor of the Havens."My experience with magazine reviews of AV software is that every AV
program is ranked in first place by *some* magazine *somewhere*, and
conversely, every AV program is ranked in last place by *some* magazine
*somewhere*. Usually not by the same magazine, at least
I exaggerate, but only a little. Anyway, it ends up being very
discouraging to try to make a decision.
(I just get tired of typing "+1".)
Seriously -- when I dumped AVG the sheer mass of alternatives and
contradictory reviews was daunting.
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The Other Guy
NOT the top rated, not even close!!!
To reply by email, lose the Ks...
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Ken1943
I found the best way to find out info on any program is to check their
forums. The bitching can tell plenty !!!!
KenW
forums. The bitching can tell plenty !!!!
KenW
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Monty
Maybe she uses a spell checker like this one
The Spell Checker Is Always Right
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques for my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever rung.
Eye have this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sow.
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Wildman
That reminds me of car insurance... every company isMy experience with magazine reviews of AV software is that every AV
program is ranked in first place by *some* magazine *somewhere*, and
conversely, every AV program is ranked in last place by *some* magazine
*somewhere*. Usually not by the same magazine, at least
I exaggerate, but only a little. Anyway, it ends up being very
discouraging to try to make a decision.
cheaper than every other company.
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mick
+1
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Ken1943
I have been running Outpost Security Suit for years. I keep an ear on
their forums. The only complaints are that it has trouble running on some
machines. No surprise. Never anything about a virus.
KenW
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Ken Blake
I never type "+1" because I don't really understand it. I know what
it's supposed to mean, but I don't know why or where it came from.
Does it simply mean "one more person who agrees with you" or is it
something more complicated? Can you (or anyone else here) help?
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Juan Wei
Gene E. Bloch has written on 9/9/2013 9:32 PM:
You're going to have to tell us what you read and where.
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Juan Wei
Ken Blake has written on 9/9/2013 8:59 PM:
consistently, it would lose all its advertisers save one in each category.
At the expense of other advertisers? If a magazine did that
consistently, it would lose all its advertisers save one in each category.
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Juan Wei
The Other Guy has written on 9/9/2013 10:17 PM:
1/2 star below Norton is "not even close"?
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Gene E. Bloch
This morning, as I was eating breakfast, reading Sky & Telescope, with
half an ear to the Mozart g-minor symphony coming over the FM, I
realized I had misspelled the adverb above.
I got the right letters, just not in the right places.
Should have been "totalement".
How's that for OCD?
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Ed Cryer
I congratulate you for excellent multi-tasking.Gene said:
BTW I thought that was what you were doing with the original sentence;
half Castilian, half French.
Ed
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Ed Cryer
http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.phpJuan said:
Notice how much is "user dependent". I guess that means "quick scan",
"in depth", "rootkit scan" etc. Mind you, it says one good thing about
AVG, viz. the user retains control.
Ed