Virus Bulletin – December 2008 – 21 Winners & 2 Losers
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I have been using AVG for about 4 years and I have found the software to have provided ample protection. I have also heard others here in this blog and other forums express their preference on using Avast. For those users of Avast you may wish to read the results in that Avast was one of two products that failed the VB testing this month.
The article from Ars Technica states:
“Here is the list of antimalware products that passed: Agnitum Outpost, AhnLab V3 Internet Security, AVG Internet Security, Avira AntiVir, CA eTrust, ESET NOD32, Fortinet FortiClient, FRISK F-Prot, F-Secure Client Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kingsoft Internet Security, McAfee VirusScan, Microsoft Forefront, Microsoft OneCare, MWTI eScan, Quick Heal AntiVirus, Rising Antivirus, Sophos Anti-Virus, Symantec Endpoint Protection, VirusBuster Professional, and Webroot I.S. Essentials.
That leaves only two products that failed: Alwil avast! and Norman Virus Control. Both failed due to a single false positive; in other words, each one of the 23 products detected every single threat thrown at them.”
Now the question is whether VB is doing enough to really challenge all of these products. What do you think? Should the tests be harder?
Comments welcome.
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the oracle
December 29th, 2008
at 2:39pm
Is it possible that all the easily exploited things have been taken care of?
Perhaps not, but it is possible that it truly is much harder for things to get through - it certainly should be, most software that is mature should be close to impervious after a few revisions.
OTOH, it is possible that the malware writers are experiencing a downturn in their economy, too!