[funsec] Consumer Reports magazine rates anti-spyware software

[Alex Eckelberry]

What's odd is that this test looks to be over a year old.  F-Secure AS
isn't even available anymore, is it?  AFAIK it was a version of
Ad-Aware. 

Alex
 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org]
On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 3:28 PM
To: funsec at linuxbox.org
Subject: [funsec] Consumer Reports magazine rates anti-spyware software

The September 2006 issue of Consumer Reports magazine
(http://www.consumerreports.org) also rates a dozen desktop anti-spyware
software packages.  Here are the results:

1. F-Secure Anti-spyware 89
2. Webroot Spy Sweeper 89
3. PC Tools Spyware doctor 88
4. Trend Micro Anti-spyware 85
5. Lavasoft Ad-Adware SE 79
6. Spybot search and destory 77
7. Zone Alarm Anti-spyware 76
8. Sunbelt CounterSpy 70
9. CA/eTrust Pest Patrol 67
10. BitDefender Antispyware 51
11. McAfee AntiSpyware 44
12. Microsoft Windows Defender 43

Richard

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