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Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld 'Fight Club' (Dark Reading)
Dark Reading covers
an antivirus competition at LinuxWorld."'What's surprising about a test like this is how much difference
there is between the antivirus products' performance,' says Dirk Morris,
CTO and co-founder of Untangle. 'Some of the products you think will do
well don't, and some of the lesser-known products, like open source tools,
end up doing well.'"
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Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld 'Fight Club' (Dark Reading) Posted Aug 9, 2007 18:23 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] You'd have to be somewhat clueless in the first place, to have assumed that the open source tools wouldn't perform well...
Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld 'Fight Club' (Dark Reading) Posted Aug 9, 2007 23:32 UTC (Thu) by pjdc (subscriber, #6906) [Link] I can see why they call you Einstein.
ClamAV bad in ct's "security special for windows" test Posted Aug 10, 2007 16:34 UTC (Fri) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link] The German publisher Heise publishing good magazines like c't and iX has done a "security special" just now. (link to advertisment for it). It contains a test of antivirus products, including ClamWin (0.88.7) which got a bad result.It did _not_ catch all viruses from the In-the-Wild list (ITW). Expectation was to find all. They reported using a list from October 2006 (referenced www.wildlist.org) with only 2254 viruses. A common other criticism is that it does not come with an on-access scanner. (This is by design as far as I know.)
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