My 2000th post - AV Testing
I wasn't sure if I would last this long, but here I still am. Yesterday was so quiet on the news front I had to pull two items from the emergency fill in list. I was hoping for something spectacular for this post, and although it may not be worthy of the "spectacular" title, it is an item of definite interest.
Is AV product testing corrupt?
I had a conversation a month or two ago with someone high up in one of the IT security companies. He was bemoaning the fact that his company's AV product had performed poorly in tests run by AV-Test.org. He was deeply suspicious of the results anyway because his company actually provides its AV engine to another company that had performed better in the test. He didn't see how that could be, unless a mistake had been made in running the tests.
As it happens there are a few AV vendors who are less than impressed with "independent AV Tests". The lists that are published influence buying decisions, but quite a few vendors believe they don't reflect product capability.
Read the article HERE.
Antivirus Tools Underperform
In LinuxWorld 'fight club,' only three antivirus tools catch all the viruses thrown at them. Oh, antivirus products. They're a commodity item, right? They're all pretty much the same. Wrong, according to a live test of antivirus products for Linux conducted last night at the LinuxWorld event in San Francisco.
Read the article HERE.
Is AV product testing corrupt?
I had a conversation a month or two ago with someone high up in one of the IT security companies. He was bemoaning the fact that his company's AV product had performed poorly in tests run by AV-Test.org. He was deeply suspicious of the results anyway because his company actually provides its AV engine to another company that had performed better in the test. He didn't see how that could be, unless a mistake had been made in running the tests.
As it happens there are a few AV vendors who are less than impressed with "independent AV Tests". The lists that are published influence buying decisions, but quite a few vendors believe they don't reflect product capability.
Read the article HERE.
Antivirus Tools Underperform
In LinuxWorld 'fight club,' only three antivirus tools catch all the viruses thrown at them. Oh, antivirus products. They're a commodity item, right? They're all pretty much the same. Wrong, according to a live test of antivirus products for Linux conducted last night at the LinuxWorld event in San Francisco.
Read the article HERE.
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