Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate 185
helix2301 writes "Every two months, AV-Test takes a look at popular antivirus software and security suites and tests them in several ways. In their latest test which was performed on Windows 7 during September and October, Microsoft Security Essentials didn't pass the test to achieve certification. Although that may not sound that impressive, Microsoft's program was the only one which didn't receive AV-Test's certificate. For comparison, the other free antivirus software, including Avast, AVG and Panda Cloud did."
Re:Now for the rest of them... (Score:5, Informative)
What is strange is MSE is the only one of those products listed I have ever seen effectively block any malware.
Wow (Score:2, Informative)
People rely on AVs against 0-day threats?
Re:Shocking (Score:1, Informative)
Except, if you actually read the whole summary let alone the article, this wasn't a free vs. costly comparison. Three free anti-virus programs performed better. So even free vs. free MS lost.
Adblockers are more effective. (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Defective product. (Score:4, Informative)
Idiotically ineffective rating system (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Now for the rest of them... (Score:4, Informative)
If it's a bad trojan/virus, MSE works quite well in getting rid of it. Keep in mind that MSE is basically Windows Defender on Steroids so it works quite well for some things.
I've been using it on a Win7-64 install for the last 2 years and it's been pretty damn decent as it simply stays out of the way. If I'm going to visit an dogdy place online, I'll use Palemoon (based on firefox) with noscript. Pretty effective in blocking crap I don't want while allowing me to at least get an idea if I want to finish loading a site.
Re:Now for the rest of them... (Score:4, Informative)
The fact that they rated Sophos so highly, when it opens up a huge exciting new attack surface for you [slashdot.org] sort of suggests this "certification" is fairly pointless.
Re:Defective product. (Score:4, Informative)
Then again considering the source... Bill Gates lying about Google? Why am I not surprised?
There is just an outside chance that the slashdot user "Billly Gates" isn't, in fact, the multi-billionaire former CEO of Microsoft.