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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0092 Microsoft concedes OneCare antivirus software is not stellar:

Microsoft acknowledged poor test results of its OneCare antivirus software, but promised it would do better by paying more attention to malware actually in the wild. A member of the Microsoft security research and response team said, "as a result of missing one virus they have adopted new methodologies to ... Look more closely at families of viruses that have been found to be "in the wild," [those] found actively spreading among users." Although he didn't specify all the steps Microsoft would take to remedy OneCare's poor performance, he said that the company's developers would come up with virus signatures able to detect entire families of malware, something security-specific vendors have been doing for years. He also said that Microsoft would put more resources into identifying what he called "truly important malware."

(ComputerWorld 16MAR07)

Last Modified: Friday, 23-Mar-2007 17:55:53 EST