Evaluation antivirus software, Microsoft's OneCare disappointing

Media reports in recent days held by the world's first anti-virus product evaluation, Microsoft OneCare performed poorly in paragraph 17 of the antivirus products ranks at the end.

The assessment of the impact of Austria's AV Comparatives Web site owners to host Andreas Clementi, the final ranking of the top of Germany's Anti-Virus Kit (AVK), Microsoft's OneCare will be 17 in the final rankings of products. AV Comparatives is an independent anti-virus software regularly publish the results of the test site, in this area has a certain authority.

In February this year to carry out the assessment test, Clementi opted for a total of 17 anti-virus products, including BitDefender's Anti-Virus 10 Professional Plus, Fortinet's FortiClient 3.0.308, McAfee of McAfee VirusScan 11.1.124, as well as Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 14.0.0.89. In the course of testing, these products have to upgrade to Feb. 2 of the virus database, and uses the best configuration. The process of testing the application of the CPC over 1,000,000 kind of virus samples.

Test results showed that Germany's G Data Security Software's Anti-Virus Kit killing 99.45% of the virus and eventually top the list; the second is TrustPort Antivirus Workstation 2.5.0.957, killing the virus was 99.36%; top The third is the Antivir Personal Edition Premium 7.03.01.34, killing the virus was 98.85%; F-Secure Anti-Virus 2007 7.01.128 finished fourth, killing the virus rate of 97.91 percent; the Kaspersky antivirus software ranking Fifth, killing the virus was 97.89 percent.

In the well-known anti-virus software vendors, Symantec products ranked sixth, killing the virus was 96.83%; Fortinet ranked 10th, killing the virus was 93.99%; McAfee ranked 14th, the virus killing rate To 91.63 percent; Microsoft is listed at the end of the virus killing rate was only 82.40 percent. Clementi said that he was not surprised by this result. He said: "Other independent tests a few months ago who had come to similar results, coupled with a week and I are concerned about the anti-virus software vendor's latest developments, so long anticipated such an outcome."

Clementi pointed out that the well-known anti-virus software vendors, Symantec's performance is very good, their products can reliably detect various forms of the virus. At the same time, he said: "Usually, I only tested the virus in the rate of killing more than 85%. I thought that Microsoft's OneCare to meet this standard, but the results disappointed me. OneCare, Microsoft will participate in the future remains to be tested Further assessment. "