{"id":499,"date":"2007-03-07T03:28:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T03:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2007\/03\/microsoft%e2%80%99s-live-onecare-the-worst-anti-virus-solution\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:40:17","slug":"microsofts-live-onecare-the-worst-anti-virus-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2007\/03\/microsofts-live-onecare-the-worst-anti-virus-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s Live OneCare the WORST Anti-Virus Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Austrian web site called AV Comparatives has done an ‘independent<\/em>‘ test of 17 different Anti-Virus products and released the results online.<\/p>\n On this site you will find independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software. All products listed in our comparatives are already a selection of some very good anti-virus products. In order to get tested by us, companies must fulfill various conditions and minimum requirements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Several free AV products were included, you can find the test here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n Navigate to ‘Comparatives – On-demand comparative \/ February 2007’<\/p>\n Microsoft’s Live OneCare was the only product receiving “Standard” level results detecting a fairly low 82.40% percent of malware.<\/p>\n The ‘winners’ were AntiVirusKit (AVK) with 99.45% and TrustPort AV WS with 99.36%.<\/p>\n Most seemed to score 96-97% detection with another group around 93%.<\/p>\n You can see many reports and results here:<\/p>\n