N
Nina DiBoy
http://news.com.com/Microsofts+own+...re+Vista/2100-7355_3-6156733.html?tag=newsmap
Microsoft's own antivirus software, Live OneCare, is unable to fully
protect Vista users against viruses, and one of security firm McAfee's
antivirus software packages also fails to protect users, according to
independent research released Friday.
Security news Web site Virus Bulletin, backed by a team of security
researchers based in Oxfordshire, U.K., tested 15 antivirus software
packages used by businesses and designed specifically for Vista,
Microsoft's newest operating system. The packages were released to
businesses two months ago.
The researchers tested whether each of the antivirus products would stop
a set of viruses known to be currently circulating. In order to be
awarded a pass, the software had to detect all the viruses with no false
positives.
But out of the 15, four failed: Microsoft Live OneCare 1.5; McAfee
VirusScan Enterprise version 8.1i; G DATA AntiVirusKit 2007 v17.0.6353;
and Norman VirusControl v5.90. The other 11, including software from CA,
Fortinet, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos and Symantec, detected all the
viruses.
"With the number of delays that we've seen in Vista's release, there's
no excuse for security vendors not to have got their products right by
now," said John Hawes, technical consultant at Virus Bulletin. "In these
days of hourly updates, it's always a surprise and a disappointment to
see major products missing them (viruses). Vista cannot fend off today's
malware without help from security products. It certainly looks like
people upgrading to the new platform are going to need additional
security solutions."
Joe Telafici, vice president of operations for McAfee's Avert Labs, told
ZDNet UK that, in his opinion, Virus Bulletin had not used its latest
antivirus updates, causing the failure. He said McAfee would issue
further results with the updated software.
Microsoft pledged to improve Live OneCare. "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," a
company representative told ZDNet UK.
On the subject of Vista, the Microsoft representative added: "It's
important to remember that no software is 100 percent secure. Microsoft
is working to keep the number of security vulnerabilities that ship in
our products to a minimum, through our Security Development Lifecycle
process, and that work is paying off. The release of Windows Vista is
the first Microsoft operating system to use the Security Development
Lifecycle from start to finish and was tested more, prior to shipping,
than any previous version of Windows."
--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html
Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"Nope. Just CLUELESS CUNTS LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank
the bittorent brigade."
"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot
Microsoft's own antivirus software, Live OneCare, is unable to fully
protect Vista users against viruses, and one of security firm McAfee's
antivirus software packages also fails to protect users, according to
independent research released Friday.
Security news Web site Virus Bulletin, backed by a team of security
researchers based in Oxfordshire, U.K., tested 15 antivirus software
packages used by businesses and designed specifically for Vista,
Microsoft's newest operating system. The packages were released to
businesses two months ago.
The researchers tested whether each of the antivirus products would stop
a set of viruses known to be currently circulating. In order to be
awarded a pass, the software had to detect all the viruses with no false
positives.
But out of the 15, four failed: Microsoft Live OneCare 1.5; McAfee
VirusScan Enterprise version 8.1i; G DATA AntiVirusKit 2007 v17.0.6353;
and Norman VirusControl v5.90. The other 11, including software from CA,
Fortinet, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos and Symantec, detected all the
viruses.
"With the number of delays that we've seen in Vista's release, there's
no excuse for security vendors not to have got their products right by
now," said John Hawes, technical consultant at Virus Bulletin. "In these
days of hourly updates, it's always a surprise and a disappointment to
see major products missing them (viruses). Vista cannot fend off today's
malware without help from security products. It certainly looks like
people upgrading to the new platform are going to need additional
security solutions."
Joe Telafici, vice president of operations for McAfee's Avert Labs, told
ZDNet UK that, in his opinion, Virus Bulletin had not used its latest
antivirus updates, causing the failure. He said McAfee would issue
further results with the updated software.
Microsoft pledged to improve Live OneCare. "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," a
company representative told ZDNet UK.
On the subject of Vista, the Microsoft representative added: "It's
important to remember that no software is 100 percent secure. Microsoft
is working to keep the number of security vulnerabilities that ship in
our products to a minimum, through our Security Development Lifecycle
process, and that work is paying off. The release of Windows Vista is
the first Microsoft operating system to use the Security Development
Lifecycle from start to finish and was tested more, prior to shipping,
than any previous version of Windows."
--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html
Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"Nope. Just CLUELESS CUNTS LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank
the bittorent brigade."
"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot