CHEATER! Test labs out AV vendor for using rival's engine (Qihoo 360)
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mrapoc
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hah! I saw AV Comparitives mentioning it last week and I meant to follow up with the name of the company.
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China is known for it's outright fake copies. It is as if they believe that someone else should do all the work and then they should just wrap a new skin on it and call it something else. I've never liked Qihoo, something about it was always off to me, and it was never a great product. This is also why I'm skeptical of some of the results on those sites (AV-comparatives and AV-Test). Some of the results they post up there about some of these AV products don't coincide with what I'm seeing.
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Ahh thanks for posting...I had saw something about that last week and meant to go back to it to read up on it, and totally forgot about it.
Just got done doing some reading.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/VB-AVC-AVT-press-release.pdf
It is a bit odd though, I think there's more behind the story than what appears on the surface.
I think they (the testing companies) need to review the process of what to do with the settings for multiple engine AV scanners. Qihoo (and the siblings Baidu and Tencent) come with triple AV engines (Bitdefender, Avira, and their own). By default not all 3 are turned on....naturally only powerful computers would run well with 3x AV engines pounding the CPU. Makes sense for a multi-engined AV scanner to not have all 3 on by default.
Last year I played with this product...once installed, bring up the dashboard..it's easy to see where to flip on the engines. I would think the AV testers would go about seeing this when running the test.
....eh, tough to say. Guess one could argue "default settings are tested" because that is what most "home users" will use out of lack of knowing any better.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/VB-AVC-AVT-press-release.pdf
Subject of Chinese AV products from that big scary place being non-trustworthy a totally separate point.
Just got done doing some reading.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/VB-AVC-AVT-press-release.pdf
It is a bit odd though, I think there's more behind the story than what appears on the surface.
I think they (the testing companies) need to review the process of what to do with the settings for multiple engine AV scanners. Qihoo (and the siblings Baidu and Tencent) come with triple AV engines (Bitdefender, Avira, and their own). By default not all 3 are turned on....naturally only powerful computers would run well with 3x AV engines pounding the CPU. Makes sense for a multi-engined AV scanner to not have all 3 on by default.
Last year I played with this product...once installed, bring up the dashboard..it's easy to see where to flip on the engines. I would think the AV testers would go about seeing this when running the test.
....eh, tough to say. Guess one could argue "default settings are tested" because that is what most "home users" will use out of lack of knowing any better.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/VB-AVC-AVT-press-release.pdf
Subject of Chinese AV products from that big scary place being non-trustworthy a totally separate point.