Re: Windows OneCare Online (Beta)

From: "Scott D" <ScottD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| I'm not down on OneCare, as others appear to be. I just paid my $20 USD to
| subscribe for the first year. I intend Defender/OneCare to be my secondary
| resident malware tools, with ewido being my primary. They appear to tolerate
| each other quite nicely.
|
| The irony is that no single threat scanner is 100% effective. Check into
| the statistics from virusradar.com and virustotal.com for a firghtening look
| into the ineffectual nature of threat scanners.
|
| ALWAYS run daily over-the-web scans using various popular threat scanners,
| such as those listed at the top of:
| http://secorconsulting.net/pages/security.html.
|

Sure no AV is 100%. But if it is lows as 20 ~ 60% then it fails !

The last test I erformed was with 27 infectors, all EXE files. All had been submitted to
Microsoft prior to the test.

Of those 27 files only two were identified by Microsoft and they were ZLob Trojan variants.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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