AV-Comparatives February 2007

Hi.....can you provide scan log files and SHA1 values to me? Thanks.

 

M$ OneCare - Last in AV Test

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129521-c,antivirus/article.html

Comments?

 

Re: M$ OneCare - Last in AV Test

Good score for Avira AntiVir. Even if I have free, which may not cover the trojans and spywares. I have BOClean for those. I feel good.

Not surprised about M$ OneCare. Congrats to those here at Wilders who predicted M$ OneCare would fare this way. I did not know but there were several who thought this. Maybe they will speak up and offer some more of their thoughts now that the results from PC World are posted.

Bill you got to buy more advertising from PC World fellow don't you get it!

 

Re: M$ OneCare - Last in AV Test

See here

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=955986&postcount=263

 

I would suggest that you send a Private Message to IBK on this matter, rather than pursue it on the forum.

 

Av-Comparatives got a mention in one of Canada's major newspapers. However the Globe & Mail got it wrong about Avast being #1. A link to Av-Comparatives main page is included in the article Which compares Windows One Care and Norton 360.http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070307.wkapizalab0308/BNStory/PersonalTech/home

 

send a mail to the author (Jack Kapica) and tell him about the errors please.
btw, 17 products were tested, not 15.

 

Done.

 

The failure of Microsoft Onecare made av-comparatives famous . This is the first time I saw a news(about Av-C) at Turkish newspaper : http://www.radikal.com.tr/haber.php?haberno=214893

 

Not that strange. OneCare is a MS product and most mainstream consumers (and they are 80 to 90 percent of PC users...) will think that OneCare must be good. It's good that newspapers and magazines tell them that OneCare is not caring that good at all

 

Even made the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6418965.stm

 

CNet also is running it now:
http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6165661.html

Seems Microsoft has some damage control to do, and simply stating

I doubt will cut the mustard!

@2048 EST on 08.03.2007 a search of Google news for "Live OneCare" revealed 341 entries, with a rough estimate of 90% tuanting MS with the AV-Comp and VB100 tests.... damage control?

 

From the BBc piece:

LOL what despicable corporation speak. Casting aspersions on the testers. Not recognising what crapware they are pushing. Shoot the messenger. Never apologise .Never explain.

ROFL Is that what passes for English (even USA English heh) these days.

Nice one BBC too bad it is at the bottom of the article.

 

btw, anyone can get ICSA and Checkmark certification as long as they get paid for re-testing until it passes the test (more or less this way, if I understood it right). So it is better to rely on VirusBulletin.

 

I stil dont trust anything besides AV-comparatives and to a degree av-test. the thing abouu av-test is that I don't think they are putting any effort into maknig sure Fortinet cannot just look at the extension and say it is infected without looking at the content. IBK made sure that Fortinet played fairly and couldn't just flag everythnig to get 99%. i also believe that some of their samples in the 2006 tests were from 2005 because there were way too many trojans and highly doubtful all of them came from the same year.

 

Nice tip IBK I didn't know that

 

I just saw that there are some new Single product tests available, only trendmicro scores somewhat ok..

 

Script viruses, and Other OS viruses/malware seem to be the downfall of some AVs.
I don't know what script viruses or other include. Can someone help me?

Thanks,
Jerry

 

http://www.viruslist.com/en/virusesdescribed?chapter=153313914

 

Thanks, IBK.
Best,
Jerry

 

What is Windows Onecare using for its antivirus? Is it an in-house product or licensed/acquired from another software vendor? Its antispyware application of course was originally Giant AS.

 

The anti-virus included by Windows OneCare is derived from the RAV product bought by Microsoft from GeCAD Romania in 2003.

 

Thanks for the info, Blackcat. I was not familiar with that one at all.

 

i wonder what antivirus IBK and all the av-staff use

 

UNA, Rising, Hauri, then finally migrated to Microsoft OneCare