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Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39% of malware in Dennis test

2 points by uladzislau 13y ago

enscr 13y ago
The report says they don't believe in keeping their system up to date i.e. ignore important security updates and expect the computer to be secure.
- tmikaeld 13y ago
  That makes no sense at all, it would mean that they want to be safe from someone physically accessing the computer and no matter what anti-virus/malware you have there is nothing that protects against that. The alternative - surfing the net without any updates, why the hell would someone even do that?
ayi 13y ago
Think before upvoting. Report says: "To create a fair testing environment, each product was installed on a clean Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit target system. The operating system was updated with Service Pack 1 (SP1), although no later patches or updates were applied." Security Essentials gets definition updates from Windows Update. So, if you don't update your system, you are stuck with what coems with the first install. Windows 7 sp1 was released to public on February 9, 2011. The report is here http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2013/DTL_2013_Q4_Home.1.pdf http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2013/DTL_2013_... and it features such gems as: "Our aim is to test the security product and not the protection provided by keeping systems completely up to date with patches and other mechanisms. Patching will inevitably improve the security of the system and readers are advised to keep all software updated." and "A selection of legitimate but vulnerable software was pre-installed on the target systems. These posed security risks, as they contained known security issues. They included versions of Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Java."
- tmikaeld 13y ago
  I reacted strongly to the same point. It's a completely unfair test, they should have tested only Anti-virus software from 2011 if it would be fair - then i'd guess most softwares would perform just as bad or even worse. The whole test is biased FUD against Microsoft.

2 points by uladzislau 13y ago

enscr 13y ago

The report says they don't believe in keeping their system up to date i.e. ignore important security updates and expect the computer to be secure.

tmikaeld 13y ago
That makes no sense at all, it would mean that they want to be safe from someone physically accessing the computer and no matter what anti-virus/malware you have there is nothing that protects against that. The alternative - surfing the net without any updates, why the hell would someone even do that?

ayi 13y ago

Think before upvoting. Report says: "To create a fair testing environment, each product was installed on a clean Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit target system. The operating system was updated with Service Pack 1 (SP1), although no later patches or updates were applied." Security Essentials gets definition updates from Windows Update. So, if you don't update your system, you are stuck with what coems with the first install. Windows 7 sp1 was released to public on February 9, 2011. The report is here http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2013/DTL_2013_Q4_Home.1.pdf http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2013/DTL_2013_... and it features such gems as: "Our aim is to test the security product and not the protection provided by keeping systems completely up to date with patches and other mechanisms. Patching will inevitably improve the security of the system and readers are advised to keep all software updated." and "A selection of legitimate but vulnerable software was pre-installed on the target systems. These posed security risks, as they contained known security issues. They included versions of Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Java."

tmikaeld 13y ago
I reacted strongly to the same point. It's a completely unfair test, they should have tested only Anti-virus software from 2011 if it would be fair - then i'd guess most softwares would perform just as bad or even worse. The whole test is biased FUD against Microsoft.