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jmke 7th August 2009 09:59

Virus Bulletin Anti-Virus Reactive & Proactive Test Results
 
Security vendors including CA and Symantec failed to secure Windows systems without fault in recent independent tests. Twelve of the 35 anti-virus products put through their paces by independent security certification body Virus Bulletin failed to make the grade for one reason or another and therefore failed to achieve the VB100 certification standard. The main faults were either a failure to detect a threat known to be in circulation (one particularly tricky polymorphic file infector caused the most grief in this area) or creating a false alarm about a file known to be benign. (src: Charles/email , thanks!)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08...i_virus_tests/

jmke 7th August 2009 09:59


wutske 7th August 2009 16:18

All very nice, but I wonder what the difference will be between the free versions and paid versions of some virus scanners ???

Kougar 9th August 2009 10:04

Probably none, unless they disabled some features.

The "free" AVG used to not protect against spyware/adware while the paid version did, but AVG fixed this earlier this year and now both offer the same detection capabilities just to give one example.

Rutar 9th August 2009 16:24

Looks like Avira did great and its free for home use


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