Microsoft's OneCare improves antivirus test ranking
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live OneCare climbed from March's dead last to 14th place in a test of 17 antivirus programs, an Austrian security researcher reported today.
Andreas Cleminti's AV Comparatives latest test pitted the top antivirus software against the 20,000-some threats that debuted during the last three months to measure how well each could finger unknown exploits. Cleminti stopped updating each product's virus database, or "signature," Feb. 2, but continued to probe their defenses with every newly discovered virus, malicious script, worm, Trojan, or backdoor until May 2.
Only one program, ESET LLC's NOD32 AntiVirus was pegged by Cleminti with the highest-possible "Advanced+" label. NOD32 correctly identified 68% of 20,522 new threats that appeared in the three months. Avira GmbH's AntiVir PE Premium and Fortinet Inc.'s FortiClient actually detected more threats -- each spotted 71% -- but high numbers of false positives downgraded the final ranking of both.
Behind NOD32 were AEC Ltd.'s TrustPort AV WS, which detected 58% of the malware, and BitDefender's same-named BitDefender Professional Plus, at 48%. GriSoft Inc.'s AVG Anti-Malware posted an 8% detection rate to rank last.
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