Test of 16 Anti-Virus Products Says None Rates "Very Good"
 

AV-Comparative recently released the results of a malware removal test in which they evaluated 16 anti-virus software solutions. The test focused only on the malware removal/cleaning capabilities, therefore all the samples used were ones that the tested anti-virus products were able to detect. The main question was if the products were able to successfully remove malware from an already infected/compromised system. None of the products performed at a level of 'very good' in malware removal or removal of leftovers, based on those 10 samples. (src: /.)

http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1137

Ive been using Comodo AntiVirus since I switched to Windows 7. Either it works perfectly and quietly or I havent had any threats, because its never gone off..

I've only had like 2-3 virusses in the past 8 years and none of them were mine (came on a stick/cd/disk) ;-)
So don't worry, if it doesn't go of then you're a smart surfer ;-)

Was browsing news reports the other day, Microsoft's Anti-virus suddenly popped up a warning it caught an exploit trying to execute embedded code through my browser cache from said news site... and I'm using Opera 10. Never had that occur before.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/po...tid=2147628045

From the explanation I'd say this is a preventative measurement causing a lot of false positives. Nevertheless it's good to hear that MSE is working :)

Wish I could find out for sure... not had other false positives with MSE yet. No quarantine folder and it automatically deleted the file, so I can't test the file.

Only have internet since mid-2004 and used Norton then, as it came 'for free' with my Belgacom account. After six months, my computer was operating from behind a sandbag fortified manhole, aiming a .50 at me and threatening with legal action, because of exemplary verbal abuse from yours truly.

I switched to BitDefender after reading a multi-test in Chip-magazine. Although it came out third, I took Bitdefender because number one (G-Data) wasn't available in English and I didn't like number two's interface (AVG).

After having tested BitDefender for 6 months (a cracked download) I purchased the real-deal and stuck with them for the simple reason that I'm very satisfied about the program.

Bitdefender Internet Security 2009 & 2010 both work without glitches on Windows 7.

If you know which file it was you could download it on another pc and test it there (and to be realy, realy sure you could use http://www.virustotal.com/sobre.html )