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Microsoft's Vista AV Fails Certification

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Re:excuses... by ThinkFr33ly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the details on implementing anti-virus for Vista, and other low level filters, have been available for well over a year. Some documentation has been avilable for more than 2 years.

    That's how companies like Kaspersky and AVG came out with fully Vista compliant versions of their software months ago. Software which works extremely well, by the way. (Kaspersky passed this test. It says so right in the article.)

  2. Re:*What* VirusControl? by DeeZee · · Score: 5, Informative

    Norman was founded in 1984, well before Peter Norton made an antivirus utility.

    Thanks for playing, though!