Many Antivirus Tools Fail in LinuxWorld Test 234
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!"
viruses on linux - a big deal anyway? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The winners: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I came to moderate! (Score:4, Funny)
Is that a cross between drivel and drool? Maybe some gruel thrown in for flavor?
Re:Onecare caught 0% (Score:4, Funny)
Re:AVG (Score:2, Funny)
Well, I haven't noticed a NOD32 for Linux... have you?
Re:viruses on linux - a big deal anyway? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, I remember an article about the lack of compatibility between Windows and WINE.
Of the four viruses thrown at it, WINE couldn't run one properly.
Truly, Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Re:The winners: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Online Scanners Considered... Bad? (Score:2, Funny)
"Thanks for your submission, we analyzed the file and it's a new variant of Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.asz that we hadn't seen before. Do an update to verify it's being detected properly by the client."
Re:Zombies (Score:5, Funny)
A bit. It's a PITA, but for static setups that don't need touching and subject to "many hands" like in a library, it's not bad. Let's just say that students in a classroom are typically better behaved than many library patrons.
" Deep Freeze is really just a crappy way of avoiding the problem instead of dealing with it and fixing it."
Well, I think the problem with that lies elsewhere, probably in a place called Redmond. All this stuff is just patches upon patches to keep Windows from eating itself.
"But it is not that hard to lock down boxes properly, with group policy and using the default Windows groups."
Some would say that this should be the default, but "design and marketing decisions" prevent that.
"But they would whine if they couldn't add weatherbug and have five different toolbars in IE"
Nnnggghhh.... *puts on BOFH hat* "YOU GET THE POLICY OF DOOM! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
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BMO
Re:Online Scanners Considered... Bad? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:viruses on linux - a big deal anyway? (Score:5, Funny)
By the time you get the e-mail, the zero-day is expired.
Re:The winners: *Direct* Quote (Score:3, Funny)
24 or 25 out of 25?
Hmmm....
Does mean that *nix is finally ready for the desktop?..Just like Windows?
Uhmm..w00t!?!?
Disclaimer: coming to you from a Feisty Kubuntu PC that is running ClamAV.
Re:AVG (Score:3, Funny)
Well, my bad...
In that case, I have two things ro wonder about:
1. Why wasn't it included in the test? and
2. WTF was my original post moderated Funny for?
Watchguard is fine (Score:2, Funny)
Re:AVG (Score:3, Funny)