That was my question as well. As we know, NAV <> SAVCE.
Greg
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From: "Hayes Elkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus
Are you specifically testing SAVCE, not Norton AV, but the latest SAVCE
client v10.0.2?
From: "Mesdaq, Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [H] Antivirus
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:59:55 -0800
Well I see malware daily as part of my job and I see the results of AV
vendors against those pieces of malware and Symantec is terrible from
what I have seen. And what I have seen is definitely things in the wild
regardless if its on the wild list or not.
And like I said earlier scanning a system for malware and seeing which
vendors catch what is not a very accurate test because you actually
don't know what is on the system and how many pieces of malware are
there. So the fact that some other scanner caught 10 and then Symantec
comes and finds 2 is not good because you don't know if both scanners
are missing 100 pieces of malware. You only know what the scanners are
reporting to you and there has even been a controversy in that because
some scanners report false positives on purpose so that their scanning
can seem more accurate. But that happens more with the anti spyware
scanners.
