Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[moriseif]

Hi friends and dear Tim

Why Norton does not participate in AV Comparatives institue testing?

[edit: updated subject to better reflect thread topic]

[ALiasEX]

Edit: Posted in wrong thread.

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

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moriseif wrote:

Hi friends and dear Tim

Why Norton does not participate in AV Comparatives institue testing?

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It does ....

http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/dyn/wpdt2011_2_en.pdf

Seems to be top of the list ....

[Bombastus]

No, they have pulled out. Check the front page. http://www.av-comparatives.org/ Norton/Symantec are not listen for this years tests.

[Lexionline]

Yep .AV-Comparatives has published the list of products will be tested during 2012.

The first surprise is the absence of Symantec Norton, who for reasons unknown will not be evaluated.  We expect some official explanation from Symantec.

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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Lexionline wrote:

Yep .AV-Comparatives has published the list of products will be tested during 2012.

The first surprise is the absence of Symantec Norton, who for reasons unknown will not be evaluated.  We expect some official explanation from Symantec.

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Hi,

And just why is it that 'we' should be able to expect some 'official' explanation of why Symantec/Norton makes any corporate decision?

Thanks

[moriseif]

I think we must know.Norton had mistake or AV-C? maybe AV-C has a good reason for that or maybe Norton has. Come on bro,it's very important for future decision about our security software.

[Davec33]

On the AV Comparatives forum it states "As Symantec Norton declined to participate in the File Detection Test, we will unfortunately not be able to provide our readers with any test results for Symantec Norton in 2012."

See :

http://www.av-comparatives.org/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=1060

I would like to hear the reason for this from Symantec. (Are they afraid that they will perform badly on that test ?)

[elsewhere]

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Lexionline wrote:

Yep .AV-Comparatives has published the list of products will be tested during 2012.

The first surprise is the absence of Symantec Norton, who for reasons unknown will not be evaluated.  We expect some official explanation from Symantec.

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AV-Comparatives have posted the following explanation in their forum:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=1060

[ProTruckDriver Super Spam Squasher]

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Davec33 wrote:

I would like to hear the reason for this from Symantec. (Are they afraid that they will perform badly on that test ?)

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Yes, I believe someone in red needs to answer this thread before rumors start and this thread gets out of hand. As of now this news does not look good, but lets give Symantec a chance to explain.