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Independant comparisions have shown that Kaspersky (
http://www.kaspersky.com/) detects more than Norton does, and is far quicker than Norton at detecting new viruses.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/ for comparisons.
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Those comparatives are a bit useless since they test on a gazillion of very old viruses. How quick the programs are to catch new viruses is more important. Of course if the program misses a tonne of the old ones you should ditch it, but most shouldn't.
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If you look, they do comparisons of how fast they catch new viruses also (in which Norton is quite pathetic). They also will give you percentages if you don't factor in old/DOS viruses.
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I'll check it out more. I just looked at the insane number of viruses 400k+ they had in their table.
Found it. Just shows what use heuristics have. Supposedly McAfee has a new program with great heuristics coming out and they are starting with daily updates also. I think we will see some good competition when it comes to antivirus programs.