Well, we run Trend and Mcafee on our Email, but CA Etrust on the desktop… So I have mixed feelings. Monday should be fun.
The latest flaw in Windows handling of WMF images files has highlighted some of the differences between Anti-Virus detection rates. With multiple variations of the exploit in action Anti-Virus vendors are struggling to keep up. www.eweek.com is running a story listing how each of the major Anti-Virus applications perform against the current known lists of variants.
The following detected all 73 versions of the exploit :-
Alwil Software (Avast)
Softwin (BitDefender)
ClamAV
F-Secure Inc.
Fortinet Inc.
McAfee Inc.
ESET (Nod32)
Panda Software
Sophos Plc
Symantec Corp.
Trend Micro Inc.
VirusBuster.And the rest listed against how many versions detected :-
62 — eTrust-VET
62 — QuickHeal
61 — AntiVir
61 — Dr Web
61 — Kaspersky
60 — AVG
19 — Command
19 — F-Prot
11 — Ewido
7 — eSafe
7 — eTrust-INO
6 — Ikarus
6 — VBA32
0 — NormanWe hope your Anti-Virus solution is located in the TOP list.
Source: www.eweek.com
[Via bitByte : IT news, reviews & opinion]
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