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Microsoft's Vista AV Fails Certification
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's much-hyped anti-virus solution, Live OneCare and three other Vista AV products failed to achieve the Virus Bulletin's VB100 certification. The other products are McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise, G DATA's AntiVirusKit 2007, and Norman's VirusControl. All failed to pass a series of tests that are required to display the VB100 badge. 'With the number of delays that we've seen in Vista's release, there's no excuse for security vendors not to have got their products right by now,' said John Hawes, technical consultant at Virus Bulletin."
I heard they also didn't earn the WTF200 or the LOL500. Based on failing to get the three of these certifcations and seeing how all three of them are as equally popular..this software will surely be going no where.
They rang the fucking bell days ago. Salivate, dammit.
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"With the number of delays that we've seen in Vista's release, there's no excuse for security vendors not to have got their products right by now..."
Security vendors. They're all alike. They say they come to help...to save us from all things dark, but in their black hearts, they all want the same thing. They all want to RULE the earth!
Kaskpersky is certainly a very effective antivirus, a lot of security comes from using 100% of CPU when browsing network folders, thus preventing the user from downloading viruses.
Prevention may be better than cure, but did you know that, contrary to the popular adage, an ounce of prevention is actually worth much less than a pound of cure? Its simply the law of supply and demand. Most people lack the foresight to use prevention, so they run for cure when the shit hits the fan. This leaves large quantities of prevention just sitting in warehouses, collecting dust. They even buried a few tons of it next to those E.T. games for the 2600. Due to this oversupply, and the huge demand for cure, the cure-prevention exchange rate is one ounce of cure is now worth 5.78 pounds of prevention.
Whoever submitted this article is a troll. We all know that Vista do not need anti-virus.
Who cares which lib they used? glib, libc, etc, etc.
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