Mac threat database.

Good morning,

I am not replying to answer your question. I am asking for your help and don't know how to post a question on the web site. How do I do this? Replying to your question is the only way I could think fo to make contact with someone.

Maybe you could answer my question. I am new to both Mac and Sophos. I recently  purchased the free Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition. It makes no mention of spyware protection. Does this version provide protection from spyware?

Thanks, and I hope you get he answer to your question.

Macbob

There are some organizations or companies which specialize on regularly evaluating AV products. Not only is it practically impossible for a single person to compare products based on the threat-detection database (there are hundreds of thousands entries) but also it's only one aspect. It is also important how a product deals with "unknown" threats, how long a it takes a company to react to new threats and how successful it is in actually detecting the threats. So one vendor might have only a single entry but reliably detect all past and future instances of this threat whereas another constantly fails to "proactively" detect modified versions but will a month or so after the "mutated" threat has been identified (because it sneaked in and caused damage) include another entry in the database. The "list of threats" won't tell you which is better. 

Christian

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