Norton Security

1492 wrote:
From which independent testing organizations? The only 'independent' security testing of PCMatic that I've been able to locate, AV-Test.org found PCMatic scored well below industry average for 'real-world' threats than virtually all the top AV software including free MS Defender? Any AV software can and should score top ratings against known threats, the challenge being zero-day malware.

I would never rely on commercial magazine reviews or commissioned expert testing as they have a vested interest in the results.

False positives are not necessarily a bad thing. Better than AV software not finding an actual threat. It tells you should confirm with secondary security scanning. There is no such thing as one all encompassing security app. Especially, these days.

You mean the same folks that awarded PC Matic AV-TEST Award earlier last year?



With the AV-TEST Award, the leading test institute for IT security selects each year the best products in their class. To be honored with one of the internationally renowned awards, however, IT security products have to score the highest ratings in comprehensive tests throughout the test period of one full year. That is precisely what PC Matic has achieved with its "Home" product. The AV-TEST Award 2019 in the test category of performance for consumer products goes to PC Matic.

But its cool, for the past 3 years I have subscribed to PC Matic and quite happy, no malware. Can't say that for Norton and McAfee.

And then we this issue earlier this year, Avast was caught harvesting users highly sensitive data and selling it to Google and Microsoft". Oh no, not the guys that make Defender! I wonder if Defender tracks users...hmmm.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/27/avast-antivirus-harvested-user-data-then-sold-to-google-microsoft

PC Matic has an Data Integrity Pledge to not sell user data.

https://techtalk.pcmatic.com/2020/01/29/pc-matic-announces-data-integrity-pledge/

Where's Microsoft's pledge?