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Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware
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"."
Microsoft Windows hosts 99.999% of malware.
Windows is malware.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
Yep, no way in hell anything with Norton on it would run as fast as a 486
Like all major software security providers, Microsoft carefully avoids 'spotting' current trojans, keyloggers and the like used by intelligence agencies in the West AND nations under Russian influence. The Russian exclusion may surprise most of you, but may of these companies are Russian or have Russian links (like any based in Israel), so an agreement exists between Russia and America/UK to NOT identify each other's official malware.
Now the worst criminal malware comes from Israel, and is a direct result of people within the Israeli intelligence agencies leaking classified information about back-doors and other 'weaknesses' to criminal partners mostly working out of ex-Soviet states like the Ukraine. The Israeli connection ensures the USA government does little to nothing in the way of cracking down on these criminal activities, when knowledge of back-doors hits the crime circuits, and millions of ordinary users and businesses are put at risk.
There is obviously a period when the same back-door coded for the NSA by Microsoft (or any other major software company) is in simultaneous use by intelligence agencies, and common criminals, and the criminals know they have a period of grace BEFORE anti-virus packaged will be upgraded to block this vulnerability.
But it gets worse. Mozilla, for instance, removed the ability for Firefox users to simply disable Javascript, so commonly served browser malware can take complete functional control of Firefox (including menus),and the user needs to use an low-level OS thread manager to close down the browser (which will restart with the malware active again UNLESS the user has added certain third party plug-ins to Firefox to handle tabs and sessions). Mozilla does this because intelligence agencies now mostly attack victims via their browsers, and via deadly functionality of Javascript as a way to access Mozilla created back-doors.
That Mozilla refuses to have a high level KILL TAB function that cannot be over-ridden by the content of any possible website tells you ALL you need to know about Mozilla's game. Mozilla specifically states in every major strategy document that user control MUST be removed from Firefox, version by version. Telling a tab to close is the very definition of user control.