Norton cleaned the boards with polymorphic viruses, but didn't do as well in the overall competition. I'm glad to to see that AVG Anti-MalWare (not the same as the free edition) fared quite well. One thing that I'm disappointed in is a no-show for Sophos. We use it extensively at work and I use it on my desktop (I use AVG Free on my laptop), I rarely see Sophos on any A/V comparison. I don't have a high opinion of Sophos, but still, I'd like to see how it actually performs.http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129521-c,antivirus/article.htmlMicrosoft OneCare Last in Antivirus TestsIn tests involving worms, viruses, Trojan horses, and other malware, Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare came in dead last.
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:00 PM PST
Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of 17 antivirus programs tested against hundreds of thousands of worms, viruses, Trojan horses and other malware, an Austrian antivirus researcher reported Wednesday.
The AV Comparatives Web site, which is maintained by Andreas Cleminti from Innsbruck, Austria, posts quarterly results of tests that pit the top antivirus products against a dynamic list of nearly half a million individual pieces of malware.
Top dog, according to Cleminti's tests, was G Data Security's AntiVirusKit (AVK), which nailed 99.5 percent of the malicious code. Not far behind were AEC's TrustPort AV WS, at 99.4 percent, Avira's AntiVir PE Premium, at 98.9 percent, MicroWorld's eScan antivirus, at 97.9 percent, F-Secure's antivirus, at 97.9 percent, and Kaspersky Labs' AV, which stopped 97.9 percent of the malware.
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