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Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test
Old 08-10-2007, 06:00 AM Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test
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talkinsecurity writes "In a public, side-by-side test conducted last night at LinuxWorld, ten antivirus products were confronted with 25 known viruses. The results were surprisingly disparate. Only three of the products caught all of the viruses; three only caught 61 percent, and one caught an abysmal 6 percent. The test, which wasn't particularly complicated, proves that there still are wide differences in the effectiveness of AV tools. A lot of people think all AV tools are the same — they're not!"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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