[dba-Tech] Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests

Hi John

> Are those sorted in order of effectiveness or anything?

Indeed. Alphabetical(!) You know, you start with A for the first character and move through the list. When you have reached Z, start over this time with the next character and so on ... pretty basic would some say.

Seriously, those that failed are all the others (yes, you guessed that but read on please) with a couple of failures only, except for one obscure product (which I've never heard of) which failed for about 85% of the samples (= useless).

/gustav

>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 04-04-2008 15:08 >>>
Gustav,

Are those sorted in order of effectiveness or anything?

Could you get a list of those that fail?  I tried to register and can't.
Plus it is 1.1 SECOND tracert just to get there.

Thanks,

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Trend,Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus
tests

Hi John

Thanks for that info. As I read it, these passed the test:

AEC Trustport Antivirus
AVG
Avira AntiVir
CA eTrust Antivirus
CA Internet Security
Check Point Zone Alarm
ESET NOD32 Antivirus
Fortinet FortiClient
Frisk F-PROT Antivirus
F-Secure Client Security
G DATA AntiVirus 2008
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Kingsoft Internet Security 2008
Microsoft Forefront Client Security
Microsoft Windows Live OneCare
MWTI eScan Internet Security
Redstone Redprotect
Symantec Norton Anti-Virus

/gustav

>>> jon.tydda at alcontrol.com 04-04-2008 10:39 >>>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/vista_sp1_av_tests/ 
 
Top tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all
failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests.
 
Virus Bulletin, the independent security certification body, said 17 of
37 anti-virus products tested failed to reach the VB100 certification
standard. McAfee VirusScan, Trend Micro Internet Security and Sophos
Anti-Virus overlooked threats known to be in circulation. Other vendors
whose products failed to make the grade included Alwil, BitDefender, Norman,
PC Tools, and VirusBuster.
 
Some of the ignored threats - largely polymorphic file infectors - have been
in circulation for months. "It is disappointing to see so many products
tripping up over threats that are not even new - computer users should be
getting a better service from their anti-virus vendors than this," Virus
Bulletin technical consultant John Hawes said.
 
Products from Symantec, Microsoft (which has problems in the past in
previous VB100 tests), AVG, and Kaspersky Lab all passed.
 
Although still lagging behind Windows XP, Vista is likely to see more
widespread use with the introduction of its first service pack, making it
more important for anti-virus vendors to deliver dependable protection for
the platform. Vista SP1 came out in mid March.
 
Virus Bulletin's VB100 tests pit each anti-virus product against a set of
viruses from the WildList, a publicly available up-to-date list of viruses
known to be circulating. To earn VB100 certification, products must be able
to detect all the viruses contained in the WildList test set without
generating false alarms when scanning a set of clean files.
 
Unlike other certification schemes, Virus Bulletin tests all products free
of charge and does not allow re-testing. Virus Bulletin's comparative
reviews also cover detection rates against a selection of zoo viruses (those
not seen outside the laboratory), scanning speeds, and computational
overheads.

Jon