Security Giants Are Broken Down In The Virus Test
Some of the larger companies in the security and antivirus industry can not stand the latest Virus Bulletin 100 test.
Virus Bulletin 100 is an independent test carried out annually since 1998 by the Organization Virus Bulletin. By the way Virus Bulletin has a conference now, that Paretologic, owner of the award winning registry cleaner RegCure software, is a sponsor of. The test uses hundreds of nasty programs, real threats gathered from the network, and is evaluating how well antivirus programs can do against them. To pass the exam and receive "VB100 certification" must the product be able to detect all one hundred threats without giving false warnings of infected programs.
This year, 24 different programs tested and of these, only 16 survived. Most of the major went through, such as McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft and Sophos. However, it was more famous names that appeared on the test, for example, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Avira and Computer Associates
F-Secure and Kaspersky found both the virus, but also delivered a false alarm each. ETrust from Computer Associates missed one of the viruses. One of the major companies that are not set at all was Trend Micro.
However, there are a lot of criticism of the VB100's test, because it is considered by many old-fashioned and relies too much on signatures of known threats instead of the more modern, heuristic methods that can find even unknown viruses.
Virus Bulletin 100 is an independent test carried out annually since 1998 by the Organization Virus Bulletin. By the way Virus Bulletin has a conference now, that Paretologic, owner of the award winning registry cleaner RegCure software, is a sponsor of. The test uses hundreds of nasty programs, real threats gathered from the network, and is evaluating how well antivirus programs can do against them. To pass the exam and receive "VB100 certification" must the product be able to detect all one hundred threats without giving false warnings of infected programs.
This year, 24 different programs tested and of these, only 16 survived. Most of the major went through, such as McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft and Sophos. However, it was more famous names that appeared on the test, for example, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Avira and Computer Associates
F-Secure and Kaspersky found both the virus, but also delivered a false alarm each. ETrust from Computer Associates missed one of the viruses. One of the major companies that are not set at all was Trend Micro.
However, there are a lot of criticism of the VB100's test, because it is considered by many old-fashioned and relies too much on signatures of known threats instead of the more modern, heuristic methods that can find even unknown viruses.
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