Microsoft has finally managed to improve its anti-virus product known as OneCare, and is no longer in the last place according to recent tests carried out by an independent anti-virus researcher.
As reported in March 2007, tests run by the Austrian security testing company AV Comparitives found Microsoft’s Live OneCare software capable of detecting only 82.4 per cent of the 500,000 test samples. Thus, the company failed to certify the OneCare anti-virus software.
Now, the software giant’s Windows Live OneCare climbed from last place of 17 anti-virus programs tested in March 2007, to 14th out of the 17 anti-virus programs.
Security researcher at AV Comparitive, Andreas Cleminti tested top anti-virus products against over 20,000 new samples of malware. He also gauged the number of false
positives and speed of on-demand scanning of the products tested.
Microsoft’s Live OneCare anti-virus software managed to achieve a ‘Standard’ certification.
However, two other anti-virus products failed to achieve a certification this time. They are AVG and Fortinet.
Fortinet was marked down after tests revealed that it picked up over 1000 false positives, even though it correctly detected 71 per cent of new malware put through its filters.
AVG, on the other hand, failed the test as it only managed to detect 8 per cent of new exploits and malware. ‘In the case of Fortinet, the false alarm rate is that high, that is does not even deserve the Standard level,’ said Clementi in his report.
Top of the list was Eset’s NOD32 anti-virus product which achieved ‘Advanced+’ certification after it found very few false positives. Besides, the tests also revealed that it had a fast scanning speed.
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