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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. excuses... by solstice680 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about "We didn't have access to Vista's internals until two months ago?"

    That would be a good excuse for most security vendors...

  2. I wonder how a Free anti-virus program would do by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe the ClamAV people ought to submit their program for testing.

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    "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  3. A very good excuse... by bhirsch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A VB100 badge means little or nothing to these companies, much less their consumers.

  4. Nothing to do with Vista by ThinkFr33ly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This has nothing to do with Vista, and everything to do with crappy anti-virus products. Neither OneCare or McAfee for XP have ever tested well, so why would anybody think that they would test well on Vista?

    If you read the entire article, you'll notice a little blurb at the end that several vendors passed the test, one of which was Kaspersky. Another excellent vendor for Vista is AVG.

    Kaspersky consistantly beats all the other major anti-virus vendors, but I guess the story wouldn't be quite as Slashdot-worthy if it ready "Kaspersky Anti-Virus on Vista Works Great!".