Microsoft's Vista AV Fails Certification

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 6, 2007 @03:43PM from the black-eye dept.

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."

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OH NO, NO VB100??!? by madsheep · 2007-02-06 16:00 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:Remind me.... by wordsnyc · 2007-02-06 16:14 · Score: 5, Funny

They rang the fucking bell days ago. Salivate, dammit.

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Re:Nothing to do with Vista by zx-15 · 2007-02-06 16:19 · Score: 5, Funny

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.