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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0070 Computer Security:

An Austrian anti-virus researcher said Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of 17 anti-virus programs tested against hundreds of thousands of worms, viruses, Trojan horses, and other malware. The AV Comparatives Web site posts quarterly results of tests that pit the top anti-virus products against a dynamic list of nearly half a million individual pieces of malware. Top dog, according to their tests, was G Data Security's AntiVirusKit (AVK), which nailed 99.5% of the malicious code. Not far behind were AEC's TrustPort AV WS, at 99.4%, Avira's AntiVir PE PRemium, at 98.9%, MicroWorld's eScan Anti-Virus, at 97.9% of the malware. Better known products such as Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus and McAfee's VirusScan posted results of 96.8% and 91.6% respectively. Holding the bottom spot was Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare, the consumer security suite that the Redmond, Washington developer launched last year. OneCare took care of just 82.4% of the malware. The test included detection of polymorphic viruses, those that produce sometimes vast numbers of variants as they try to sneak by scanners. Only Symantec's Norton AntiVirus and ESET's NOD32 Anti-Virus caught every variant of the 12 polymorphic families.

(ComputerWorld 01MAR07)

Last Modified: Tuesday, 06-Mar-2007 07:06:53 EST