Tavis Ormandy Criticizes Meaningless Antivirus Excellence Awards (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:32PM from the you-wanna-play-the-dozens-well-the-dozens-is-game dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A Google security expert (Tavis Ormandy) has become annoyed with antivirus products receiving awards a week after he finds huge security holes in their software. He's talking about Comodo who received an "excellence" award from Verizon, after the researcher discovered 4 security issues in the past four months, and is in the process of submitting a fifth. His criticism of Comodo and Verizon's silly awards is also validated by the fact that during the past year, he discovered security flaws in numerous antivirus and security software such as Avast, Malwarebytes, Trend Micro, AVG, FireEye, Kaspersky, and ESET.

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And The Best AntiVirus is.... by FudRucker · 2016-03-15 22:25 · Score: 4, Insightful

switching to an Operating System that is not the target of virus writers, or at least less of a target

Linux is your best bet for a general purpose operating system

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