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Re: Consumer Reports magazine rates anti-virus software
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:58:28 -0400
On 8/12/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:
The September 2006 issue of Consumer Reports magazine (http://www.consumerreports.org) rates a dozen desktop anti-virus software packages. Here are the results: 1. BitDefender Standard 87 2. ZoneAlarm AV 85 3. Kaspersky Personal AV 82 4. Norton AV 80 5. Norton AV for Mac 80 6. McAfee ViruScan 77 7. Trend Micro PC-cillin 75 8. Alwil Avast! 68 9. F-secure AV 66 10. Panda Titanium AV 64 11. CA/eTrust EZ AV 57 12. PC Tools AV 41
Finding the standouts. Our next round of tests helped us identify superior antivirus software by measuring how well each of the products identified new viruses even before their signatures had been downloaded. The antivirus programs did this by using a technique known as heuristics, in which they seek out behaviors rather than signatures. To pit the software against novel threats not identified on signature lists, we created 5,500 new virus variants derived from six categories of known viruses, the kind you'd most likely encounter in real life. That done, we unleashed the new viruses in our labs to see how well the products detected them while scanning. Then we infected our lab computer with each of 185 of them to see whether the products could better detect viruses that were actively executing, based on their behavior. Finally, to see how often the antivirus software raised false alarms by identifying benign files as viral, we scanned more than 100,000 clean files. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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