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Microsoft OneCare Last in Antivirus Tests

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-so-great-expectations dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "PC World has a story reporting that Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of 17 antivirus programs tested against hundreds of thousands of pieces of malware. The report of an Austrian antivirus researcher was released at the AV Comparatives Web site this week. Several free AV products were included in the test as well." While the top dog was able to find 99.5% of the malicious code, OneCare clocked in at 82.4%. Of course, there's no metric for the severity of the malware in the 17% gap.

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  1. False positives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe OneCase doesn't have all those false positives the other softwares have.

  2. Re:Old Viruses by Subbynet · · Score: 0, Troll

    lol.. Who said I have evidence? This is Slashdot! :-)

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  3. Nice link by trollercoaster · · Score: -1, Troll

    douche bags

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  4. Re:It'll get better over time by billgates · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your parents are pretty average and it looks like their offspring are pretty average too.