Anti-Virus Effectiveness Down from Last Year

juct sends us Heise Security's summary of an article detailing the abilities of 17 current anti-virus solutions. German computer magazine c't has found that, compared to last year, the virus scanners are having a more difficult time recognizing malware. Quoting Heise: "For real protection, however, in view of the flood of new malware, the way these programs cope with new and completely unfamiliar attacks is more important. And that's where almost all of the products performed significantly worse than just a year ago. The typical recognition rates of their heuristics fell from approximately 40-50 per cent in the last test - at the beginning of 2007 - to a pitiful 20-30 per cent."

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hmm....

[Anonymous Coward]

"The beta version of Windows Live OneCare 1.5 was released in early October 2006 by Microsoft. Version 1.5 was released to manufacturing on January 3, 2007 and was made available to the public on January 30, 2007." - wikipedia.org

Who says correlation doesn't necessarily indicate causation?

Simple Reason

[LaskoVortex]

This is no doubt because of the rise of Macs and Linux. If people stuck to a good operating system, then we wouldn't have viruses. I mean, look at the numbers. The correlation is undeniable.

Re:where are all the Linux server exploits ..

[digitig]

A Linux desktop logged in as standard user is safe from the numpties and is still usable. Maybe, but if Linux is adopted by the masses then the masses will run as root because it's easier.