M$oft says this is the “pit crew for your PC”
Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare came in dead last out of a group of 17 antivirus programs tested against hundreds of thousands of worms, viruses, Trojan horses and other malware, an Austrian antivirus researcher reported.
Top dog, according to Cleminti’s tests, was G Data Security’s AntiVirusKit (AVK), which nailed 99.5 percent of the malicious code.
Holding the bottom spot was Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare, the consumer security suite that the Redmond, Wash. developer launched last year. OneCare took care of just 82.4 percent of the malware.
“We are looking closely at the methodology and results of the test to ensure that Windows Live OneCare performs better in future tests,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.
But, hey – they’re only up to V.1.5…
At the news stand this Sunday, saw a magazine, PREMIER ISSUE.
Windows Vista Magazine The Official Magazine
How I love the ATI plug for TV in your PC, with the All-In-Wonder remote control. Yet it don’t work (yet).
http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/US/
Oh the vaporware that was inside, even the publicity!
An Austrian study, and the no. 1 antivirus is German? Mmmmmm….
Switch to Linux and you won’t have to use an anti-virus program. Duh.
Let’s hear it for xenophobia, miguel.
This is what happens when you try to become a jack of all trades. You become a master of none.
I said it before, I’ll say it again; billions and billions of dollars into the M$ maw, lets them afford batallions of lawyers and 100s of millions for marketing Vista alone – but somehow they can’t manage to scrape up enough cash to hire any of the many talented, un- / under-employed American programmers to address the innumerable glaring defects snd shortcomings in their products.
Oops. I forgot. That’s what support lines are for. Please have your credit card # handy.
Suck-erz. 🙂
This is BS…
1. MS didnt Launch ANYTHING they bought out GIANT, and it is/WAS their program, and it was decent.
2. MS placed most of the holes in Windows and IE, Long ago for Adverting, and the Bad people Got ahold of it as ALWAYS.
3. any one remember the Monkey joke, lets use it as programmers.
Stick 10,000 programmers in a room and give them Keyboards. Eventually they will write WINDOWS.
Problem with this?? Each person writes abit differetnly, then you have to make ALL the parts fit and work together.
IMHO, I will state that I do NOT think Gates has written Any programming in ALONG time.
“We are looking closely at the methodology and results of the test to ensure that Windows Live OneCare performs better in future tests,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.
lol. that sounds like the video card manufactures tweaking their drivers specifically for a certain benchmark test.
God (5) 🙂 I wasn’t thinking along those lines. It’s just that Germany is right across the border… The company making that AV can even be from Austria and have a domain registered in Germany, for all we know… Historically there’s been a lot of cooperation by companies in those two countries. People just cross that border with no issues.
I dunno, sounded fishy to me.
I«m not surprised about the MS stuff, but I’m surprised at the bad place McAfee had. I still trust it with (almost) my life. Every time I switched to some other AV I regretted it – and later found out McAfee could have caught it…
Does anybody else get really tired of the twits that post clever things like the following:
Switch to Linux and you won’t have to use an anti-virus program.
Just to clarify, twit, that would be great — except for the hundreds of people I work with that use Windows. They’re very average people, and are just barely able to spell check and change font sizes.
Of course, we could switch to Linux, drop almost all of our mediocre productivity, lay-off the staff, stiff the shareholders as the stock plummets, and outsource the company — if we just switch to Linux.
P.S. and BTW: there are viruses and vulnerabilities in Linux, as well.
#12
He’s obviously talking about home users. What business in their right minds would run One Care? Linux (Ubuntu for example) is more than easy enough for novice users who are content surfing the net and using a word processor for sharing recipes.
About home users and Linux: a friend of mine just installed Ubuntu in his mother’s laptop. That was a few months ago. She LOVED it! So much that now his father also wants it on HIS PC.
The PCs update themselves, no viruses or issues so far. Now these aren’t two computer literate people, they might just be representative. What Linux has to go against is the huge installed base of Windows and resistance to change in companies – it would cost them money to make such a huge change. But it’s not undoable.
If MS could detect malware before or after it is installed they should harden their operating system, not make it a separate product.
Even if they bought a great anti-virus product they would run it into the ground in the name of “improving” it.
#15 – pedro
“linux people are starting to sound like macfans”
Gee, pedro. When you’re stuck with suffering through using a piece ‘o shit OS, you get mighty resentful of others who didn’t succumb to peer pressure and sheeple-osity – and who don’t have to share your misery.
Then when they try to help you, and show you how you can avoid all that shit, you get childishly petulant and slap at the helping hand you’ve been offered.
Fans are people who are enthusiastic about something. Of course, if I used Windows everyday, I wouldn’t be able to grasp that concept either, but I wouldn’t compulsively attack those who actually have something to be enthused about… 🙂
#14 Miguel, that just goes to show that for the average person, the Internet is 100% of the content and use.
Very little is demanded of the local PC other than to display the content.
I definitely support Linux on PC hardware over Mac any day.
The Cloud OS thing, where the hardware/OS you use, doesn’t matter, 100% of you is stored on an Internet server, like Google.
Just like many people I know, even though I tell them, install BearShare and LimeWire, because they work, Cloud OS will be big.