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Microsoft Security Essentials fails AV-Test certification (again)
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MS responded to these tests:
AV-Test reports on samples hit/missed by category. We report (and prioritize our work) based on customer impact.
AV-Test's test results indicate that our products detected 72 percent of all "0-day malware" using a sample size of 100 pieces of malware. We know from telemetry from hundreds of millions of systems around the world that 99.997 percent of our customers hit with any 0-day did not encounter the malware samples tested in this test.
AV-Test's test results indicate that our products missed 9 percent of "recent malware" using a sample size of 216,000 pieces of malware. We know from telemetry that 94 percent of these missed malware samples were never encountered by any of our customers.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/01/16/lessons-learned-from-the-latest-test-results.aspx
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57...hallenges-poor-grade-for-security-essentials/
It's worth reading the second link to see AV-Tests coments to MS's comments.
AV-Test reports on samples hit/missed by category. We report (and prioritize our work) based on customer impact.
AV-Test's test results indicate that our products detected 72 percent of all "0-day malware" using a sample size of 100 pieces of malware. We know from telemetry from hundreds of millions of systems around the world that 99.997 percent of our customers hit with any 0-day did not encounter the malware samples tested in this test.
AV-Test's test results indicate that our products missed 9 percent of "recent malware" using a sample size of 216,000 pieces of malware. We know from telemetry that 94 percent of these missed malware samples were never encountered by any of our customers.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/01/16/lessons-learned-from-the-latest-test-results.aspx
Got from:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57...hallenges-poor-grade-for-security-essentials/
It's worth reading the second link to see AV-Tests coments to MS's comments.
Care. The focus shouldn't be on A/V.
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/01/web-exploits-bright-future/
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/01/web-exploits-bright-future/
Thanks for the RSS....
Artificial tests like this seem designed to spread FUD to keep a multi billion pound anti Virus industry in business. If you look at the MS response the vast majority of the supposed "misses" were for things almost never seen in the real world.
It's like having a headline complain that Anglian Windows double glazing failed 3 different tests on being bullet proof... Ok, and factually correct but does it actually matter?
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Nice analogy, Athanor.
I have seen one bit of malware slip past my MSE (and, admittedly, it was from me surfing naughty sites), but was a very small nuisance rather than a big one I might have from the bloatware that is McAfee or Symantec. As posted by KIA, with a little smarts you shouldn't have a problem.
I have seen one bit of malware slip past my MSE (and, admittedly, it was from me surfing naughty sites), but was a very small nuisance rather than a big one I might have from the bloatware that is McAfee or Symantec. As posted by KIA, with a little smarts you shouldn't have a problem.
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as said by MS and others in the real world most of us have nothing to fear
more scaremongering
more scaremongering
Disagree.
Avast is a good free OS however you'll probably need the patch for Win8,otherwise you get BSOD even with latest Avast version.
Info here https://support.avast.com/index.php?languageid=1&group=eng&_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=1454 .