Antivirus vs. trojan vs worm protection !

[John .]

There seem to be lots of comparisons of one AntiVirus product vs
another. Some say any of the better known ones are good for anti
viruses.

Lately, however, it seems to me that there are fewer email viruses and
more and more worms, trojans and other backdoor etc problems rather
than the traditional viruses. Here's one link I saw recently here:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2005_02.php

The virus detection rate is pretty good by all of them, but the worm
etc rates are not.

So, shouldn't I be more concerned recently about all these "other"
categories (macro, script, worms, trojan, backdoor, etc) ratings and
not just the traditional dos/windows virus software.

From the above link, it looks like the "other" protection software is
ranked in this order:

Kaspersky
Symantec
McAfee

Is there something I'm missing here?

 

[null]

There seem to be lots of comparisons of one AntiVirus product vs
another. Some say any of the better known ones are good for anti
viruses.

Lately, however, it seems to me that there are fewer email viruses and
more and more worms, trojans and other backdoor etc problems rather
than the traditional viruses. Here's one link I saw recently here:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2005_02.php

The virus detection rate is pretty good by all of them, but the worm
etc rates are not.

Huh? With KAV and McAfee at well ov 99% in worm detetection,
I dunno what you're talking about.

So, shouldn't I be more concerned recently about all these "other"
categories (macro, script, worms, trojan, backdoor, etc) ratings and
not just the traditional dos/windows virus software.

Looks to me like several av do quite well in these categories.

Art

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