[access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 'fails' active virus test

MS LiveOneCare is however in quite good company because MacAfee Virus Scan 
Corporate Edition 8.1 also failed, as did another.  VISTA does herald a real 
effective tightening of security whatever critics may say.  It is giving some 
deveolopers a headache because of the extra seucity.  No software is 100 
percent effective against reckless operation of a machine and the march of 
progress in viruses and security expliots.
Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6331959.stm

  Windows 'fails' active virus test

  Windows Vista on sale, AP
  Vista comes equipped with several different security tools
  Security tools that work with Windows Vista have failed tests to see if they
  can detect viruses circulating online.

  Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security tool was one of four products that
  failed independent tests carried out by the Virus Bulletin.

  The security testing group found that Live OneCare missed far more active
  viruses than any other program tested.

  To pass the tests anti-virus tools must spot and stop 100% of the malicious
  programs used to attack them.

  Attack profile

  When Vista was launched on 30 January, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates claimed
  that it was "dramatically more secure" than other operating systems.

  Work began on Vista in 2001 and prior to release Microsoft said that some of
  the delay was due to efforts to harden the operating system against viruses
  and other malicious programs.

   Vista cannot fend off today's malware without help from security products

  John Hawes, Virus Bulletin

  Version 1.5 of Windows Live OneCare was co-launched with Vista and uses the
  same scanning "engine" as the security tools bundled with the operating
  system.
  Typically users pay a yearly subscription to use Live OneCare.

  The Virus Bulletin tests try to catch out anti-virus software with a variety
  of malicious programs including bots and worms known to be spreading online,
  file infectors, polymorphic and macro viruses.

  While Live OneCare did manage to spot 100% of the macro viruses it was
  tested against, it missed some wild viruses, polymorphic programs and file
  infectors.

  Live OneCare caught 99.91% of the known active viruses it was tested
  against. This left it vulnerable to 37 separate malicious programs.

  Other anti-virus products that failed the tests included G-Data
  AntiVirusKit, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.51 and Norman Virus Control
  5.90.

  In a statement, Joe Telafici, vice president of operations for McAfee Avert
  Labs, said Virus Bulletin had not been using the most up to date version of
  VirusScan Enterprise at the time of testing.

  "McAfee is currently working with Virus Bulletin on this discrepancy and to
  make the updated test results available," he said.

  "The tests conducted in our secure labs were against the most significant
  viruses and worms affecting real-world users," said John Hawes, a technical
  consultant at Virus Bulletin.

  "Although many improvements have been made, Vista cannot fend off today's
  malware without help from security products," he said.

  Jo Wickremasinghe, Windows Live OneCare product manager, said in a
  statement: "We are looking closely at the methodology and results of the
  test to ensure that Windows Live OneCare performs better in future tests
  and, most importantly, as part of our ongoing work to continually enhance
  Windows Live OneCare to ensure the highest level of protection and service
  that we can provide our customers."

  Colin Howard, who lives in Southern England near the city of Southampton, is 
really looking forward to hearing from you.
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