Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld 'Fight Club'


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Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld 'Fight Club'

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Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Eckie Silapaswang

LinuxWorld hosts a battle royal of anti-virus software in an AV 'FightClub' - 10 AV products are put up against 25 viruses to see who is still left standing. Don't worry, open-source enthusiasts, ClamAV performed in the top-tier, being one of only 3 tools that detected and properly blocked those viruses. Certain tools couldn't even catch 10% of the viruses. This just goes to show just how effective open source can be especially in the world of "taken for granted" anti-virus programs.

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This isn't such a big deal - why?

Written by bricken on 2007-08-10 09:07:09

it seems the virus threat has gone way down, so even as good as this is, viruses don't garner the kind of attention they used to. Is this showing that its going to be more important? or is it just that viruses have decreased in importantance, so open source has had a chance to catch up?

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