Microsoft agrees…Windows OneCare performs poor
Microsoft Windows OneCare performed poor test results on Thursday, but the Microsoft officials promised it would do better by paying more attention to malware actually in the wild.
“The recent detection numbers were not stellar,” Jimmy Kuo, a member of the Microsoft security research and response team, said in a company blog “We missed capturing a VB100 [Virus Bulletin 100] in the last test because we missed one virus. As a result, we have adopted new methodologies to … look more closely at families of viruses that have been found to be ‘in the wild,’ [those] found actively spreading among users.”
Early last month, Virus Bulletin, a U.K.-based publication whose VB100 tests are considered one of the most accurate antivirus industry’s tests, put 15 Vista security programs up against January’s WildList, a top of the list of all viruses, worms, Trojans and other dangerous malware. Five titles failed the test, including Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare 1.5.
“We will keep on working to acquire the VB100 Award each time we are tested by Virus Bulletin,” promised Kuo.
Kuo joined Microsoft security team on september,and before that he was member of the McAfee Avert team.He is the famous researcher who tracked down the hacker who created 1999,s Melissa virus.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/
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