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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Antivirus Fight Club

Found this interesting article on ClamAV's website.

Antivirus Fight Club

Here's the interesting tidbit:


The “winners” in last night’s contest were ClamAV, Kaspersky and Symantec. All three tools caught 100 percent of the viruses they encountered. F-Prot and Sophos caught 94 percent; McAfee caught 89 percent; and GlobalHauri, Fortinet, and SonicWall caught 61 percent.


I am not shocked to see Symantec where it is, because let's face it...it is still best of breed.

But McAfee which is considered to be one of the big dogs to be so low is awful.

But a free, open source product in this test coming in @ 100% accuracy is VERY nice and applies some pressure.

So what are you using for antivirus??? Might want to think twice about it now.
EDIT: Rule Number One Of Anti Virus Fight Club - Never TALK about Anti-virus Fight Club!!!