Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware

Posted by timothy on Friday December 20, 2013 @12:22PM from the talked-harshly-with-the-other-61-percent dept.

Barence writes "The latest tests from Dennis Publishing's security labs saw Microsoft Security Essentials fail to detect 39% of the real-world malware thrown at it. Dennis Technology Labs (DTL) tested nine home security products on a Windows 7 PC, including Security Essentials, which is distributed free to Windows users and built into Windows 8 in the form of Windows Defender. While the other eight packages all achieved protection scores of 87% or higher — with five scoring 98% or 99% — Microsoft's free antivirus software protected against only 61% of the malware samples used in the test. Microsoft conceded last year that its security software was intended to offer only "baseline" performance"."

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Re:In other news by mrbluze · 2013-12-20 12:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Microsoft Windows hosts 99.999% of malware.
Windows is malware.

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Re:MSSE vs Norton by bloodhawk · 2013-12-20 13:58 · Score: 1, Troll

Yep, no way in hell anything with Norton on it would run as fast as a 486