said by MrTwister 
:said by KrK :said by tempus45 :When a person studies gets a 4(degree) or more years in school that person is called an authority of there respective fields. What does 27 years in publishing in computer does?
I've met some of these college degree experts. No thanks, I'll take the guy in the trenches experience.
Look, I'm not saying PC Magazine sucks or anything, but nobody is right all the time, and reviewers are humans with personal likes and dislikes of their own, too.
I'll go along with that.. PCMag has long been known for being biased towards companies that advertise. I've read
that mag along with a lot of the other mags that that company puts out from the beginning. (scratching head, I think Byte mag was one of the early ones).
I've seen articles and reviews that went both ways, but
most of the things are main stream.
You can't base your decisions on a single review/source.
Shop around, there are a lot of sources these days, and yes
you'll have reviews that are biased, but you'll have
a ton of data to use to make your decision.
There is one mag out there that doesn't pull any punches.
They don't care if the company of a product has a 1,2,3 or
8 page full color advertisement in their mag, they will
bash it. Even if they give the product a kick ass rating,
they will find something to bash it, even it it's a simple
thing of being an awful color or weird/wacky shape. The
mag is "Maximum PC (minimum BS) -- usually missed in the
title.
Maximum PC, in the latest release (just received 2 days ago)
, did a review on 10 different AV packages. One of the
packages I use, got a low rating, but when you look deeper
into the data, you see, they bashed it for not being an
entire security suite, the interface took a beating, it
did not have a firewall, etc.. From that stand I can agree
with the ugly interface, but from having full package, eh
that's to be decided. I'd rather have a AV that works and
a firewall that works, as opposed to a security suite that
has all the bells and whistles, and one app works great
and another is hit or miss. I don't mind taking the time
to select packages that work together and offer a total
security solution. But that's just me.
Hell, I was using a Norton's solution for the longest time,
keeping all the signatures updated as well as the programs
themselves, but was shocked, that after doing weekly
full system scans for a couple of years, I didn't have
any hits, but the day I installed Avast on the one
machine and AVG on the other, I started getting hits
on files that have been on the machine for 4 years.
It's really odd to say the least.
But I digress..
Maximum PC = Awesome 
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