The BBC today reported the Microsoft's Vista's Live One-Care failed a test recently done by Virus Bulletin. The article states "While Live OneCare did manage to spot 100% of the macro viruses it was tested against, it missed some wild viruses, polymorphic programs and file infectors.
Live OneCare caught 99.91% of the known active viruses it was tested against. This left it vulnerable to 37 separate malicious programs.
Other anti-virus products that failed the tests included G-Data AntiVirusKit, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.51 and Norman Virus Control 5.90."
This test was against known viruses, bots and worms. The article then quotes John Hawes from Virus Bulletin ""Although many improvements have been made, Vista cannot fend off today's malware without help from security products," he said."
I would argue that even with the use of other anti-virus vendors' products, tests from Malware-test.com suggests that most vendors are missing 50% of the malware.
Caveat emptor. Don't rely upon what the vendor's marketing spiels tell you.
Guy
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