Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista
-
Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista
Richard Thurston ZDNet UK
Published: 06 Feb 2007 14:08 GMT
Microsoft's own antivirus software, Live OneCare, is unable to fully protect Vista users against viruses; and one of McAfee's antivirus software packages also fails to protect users, according to independent research released on Friday.
Virus Bulletin, backed by a team of Oxfordshire-based security researchers, tested 15 antivirus software packages used by businesses and designed specifically for Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, and 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 Computer Associates, 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. A company spokesperson told ZDNet UK: "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."
On the subject of Vista, the Microsoft spokesperson 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." -
Like that who will wan buy vista
-
That's why MS no good... I never had OneCare... it's crap.
-
lol i tot i saw .... OneCare... it's crap => One CrapOriginally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:That's why MS no good... I never had OneCare... it's crap. -
Bill Gates promised that Vista will wow us..
as in.. "wow.. this sucks!"
or "wow... i just go eaten by a virus"
-
cannot make it. -
but if it can get the major harware manufacturers to jump on board, then we are truly f-u-c-k-e-d!
I predict the following will happen:
1. Emergence of a cult following of alternatives such as Mac OS X and various Linux strands because the opportunity cost of Vista is levelling with adopting a new experience. Those who thumb their nose at Microsoft's arrogance (because they can!!!) will go "underground" and of course those who cant afford it have no other choice.
2. Divergence of wares - if ppl are having problems with playing their downloaded content on the computer, they may switch to other hardwares and the computer will become a basic work tool.
anyone can point me to a basic guide to understanding Linux as an alternative choice? -
uhh.. the price of a Mac Mini isn't that high..
and also, you can get a basic iBook for about $1.9k
so what is this "cult following" you are talking about?
it is the blind lemming-like conformity that "forces" people into using Microsloth...
OSX takes about.. 1 hour.. to get used to..
besides, don't you know? Microsloth doesn't have a R&D.. they just copy Mac.. -
hopefully they will improve their anti-virus program lah...cuz they're considered new comers in the market, need time to gain experience etc...
-
Just Google. Linux has tons of flavours, and no one guide will completely tell what to do and what to expect.
Only that flavour guide will tell what to do. -
but i am also a little wary of Apple, behind all those "being different" and "anti-establishment" brand talk, will they sell out in the end? then we will have 2 microsloths on our hands...Originally posted by the Bear:uhh.. the price of a Mac Mini isn't that high..
and also, you can get a basic iBook for about $1.9k
so what is this "cult following" you are talking about?
it is the blind lemming-like conformity that "forces" people into using Microsloth...
OSX takes about.. 1 hour.. to get used to..
besides, don't you know? Microsloth doesn't have a R&D.. they just copy Mac..
cult - i mean, i am one of those that believes that the internet should be fundamentally free, it is ok if someone ones to commercialize and control a little part of it, but mainly it should be our last frontier of freedom, a concept that is quite nicely delivered by the ppl behind skype -
Not only because of Macs pricing or OS, but the fact that Gaming and third party 'freewares' or softwares are not freely available for users to use.Originally posted by the Bear:uhh.. the price of a Mac Mini isn't that high..
and also, you can get a basic iBook for about $1.9k
so what is this "cult following" you are talking about?
it is the blind lemming-like conformity that "forces" people into using Microsloth...
OSX takes about.. 1 hour.. to get used to..
besides, don't you know? Microsloth doesn't have a R&D.. they just copy Mac..
so basically the turnoff point for PC users to 'convert' to Macs are gaming and loads of software piracy.
btw, i'll be seeing my 24" imac soon. -
x2Originally posted by M©+square:Not only because of Macs pricing or OS, but the fact that Gaming and third party 'freewares' or softwares are not freely available for users to use.
But basically the turnoff point for PC users to 'convert' to Macs are gaming and loads of software piracy.
take JB's pirated shop for example.
whole shop, has 30 shelves devoted to PC apps.
1 shelf for mac.
i not rich enough to sped another $1.5k on softwares. -
well i tink dat bill is rushing up too fast for WVista to come out, he shld do more tests.
-
Ya and wait for 10th year anniversary for research of VISTA.Originally posted by gigabyte14:well i tink dat bill is rushing up too fast for WVista to come out, he shld do more tests.
By that time, I think Mac is planning their OS Lion or Cougar liao.
Vista have to release and quickly move on to produce a better OS to take over Vista.