Re: Latest VB 100 test results

["Daniel H. Renner" <dan () losangelescomputerhelp com>]

It is interesting to me that anti-virus programs are used to test 
against malware, which is not always a virus.

Our users would think the anti-virus program should stop everything, and 
they think the same thing of firewalls - but experienced technicians and 
pros know better.

IMHO and based on the past 17 years of experience with our clients, I 
agree with the comparative test results obtained by a private virus 
collector in Greece:
http://www.virus.gr/portal/en/
(Comparative results are listed in the left menu bar.)


Sincerely,

Daniel H. Renner
President
Los Angeles Computerhelp
A division of Computerhelp, Inc.
818-352-8700
http://losangelescomputerhelp.com



funsec-request () linuxbox org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:30:14 -0500
> From: "Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>
> Subject: RE: [funsec] Latest VB 100 test results
> To: "Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>,
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> And in case you're not a subscriber, you can get a gist of what happened
> from this article:
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> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140315-c,antivirus/article.html
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> Many big-brand security products fail to spot commonly-circulating
> malware, testing outfit has Virus Bulletin found in its latest tests.
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> A total of 17 out of 32 of antivirus products failed the company's
> stringent VB100 test, which expects software to detect 100 percent of
> the commonly-circulating 'WildList' thrown at it without signalling any
> false positives.
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> Programs failing included those from Sophos
> <http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Sophos+plc.html> , Kaspersky, Fortinet
> <http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Fortinet+Inc..html> , Trend Micro
> <http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Trend+Micro+Inc..html> , CA Home, and PC
> Tools, though within this group detection failures varied widely. CA's
> Home program scored a disturbingly high 40 misses, while the others
> scored from 8 misses down to only one miss for Kaspersky. PC Tools'
> Spyware Doctor detected the WildList suite but failed because it falsely
> identified two files as malware.
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> (The above is not entirely accurate for PC Tools, which did pass with
> their AV product (based on VirusBuster), but not their antispware
> product.  And CA's other AV product, eTrust, did pass.)
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