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Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test
talkinsecurity writes "In a public, side-by-side test conducted last night at LinuxWorld, ten antivirus products were confronted with 25 known viruses. The results were surprisingly disparate. Only three of the products caught all of the viruses; three only caught 61 percent, and one caught an abysmal 6 percent. The test, which wasn't particularly complicated, proves that there still are wide differences in the effectiveness of AV tools. A lot of people think all AV tools are the same — they're not!"
are viruses on linux a overflow from WINE?
Duh, it detected a virus and a half! Do I have to explain everything to you??
Is that a cross between drivel and drool? Maybe some gruel thrown in for flavor?
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
That would mean that it's performing just as well as it does in Windows. Good work Microsoft!
Well, I haven't noticed a NOD32 for Linux... have you?
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Well then, all WatchGuard needs to do now is back it up with some source code showing how they managed to fuck it up so bad it misses 94% of the viruses now.
"Thanks for your submission, we analyzed the file and it's a new variant of Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.asz that we hadn't seen before. Do an update to verify it's being detected properly by the client."
"Have you ever worked in a tech department that had to support frozen computers?"
A bit. It's a PITA, but for static setups that don't need touching and subject to "many hands" like in a library, it's not bad. Let's just say that students in a classroom are typically better behaved than many library patrons.
" Deep Freeze is really just a crappy way of avoiding the problem instead of dealing with it and fixing it."
Well, I think the problem with that lies elsewhere, probably in a place called Redmond. All this stuff is just patches upon patches to keep Windows from eating itself.
"But it is not that hard to lock down boxes properly, with group policy and using the default Windows groups."
Some would say that this should be the default, but "design and marketing decisions" prevent that.
"But they would whine if they couldn't add weatherbug and have five different toolbars in IE"
Nnnggghhh.... *puts on BOFH hat* "YOU GET THE POLICY OF DOOM! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
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BMO
I don't need to test my programs.. I have an error correcting modem.
"Either way, my system would be compromised by either 24 or 25 viruses..."
24 or 25 out of 25?
Hmmm....
Does mean that *nix is finally ready for the desktop?..Just like Windows?
Uhmm..w00t!?!?
Disclaimer: coming to you from a Feisty Kubuntu PC that is running ClamAV.
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Well, my bad...
In that case, I have two things ro wonder about:
1. Why wasn't it included in the test? and
2. WTF was my original post moderated Funny for?
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I use Watchguard all the time and nothing has ever gone wr&,;*..}..Get 3 months of Viagra free with our low mortgage rate offer now now now!
Table-ized A.I.
AVG did the same for me about a month ago. Vundo got on my laptop and it took forever to get rid of the damn thing. It always makes me nervous when the instructions for doing something in Windows point out that "your machine will blue screen after this step but don't worry; that's normal."