Tim: >> If you read the reviews of anti-virus software, from time to time, you >> will see that none of them are 100% effective. The last review I read >> came to the conclusion that the most effective checkers only managed to >> find about 60% of the viruses, and not all the same viruses. That is a >> pretty poor rating - just a bit less than half will get through. jdow: > The last time I ran though a complete rating of AV tools none of them were > as bad as you declare. Please enhance your assertions with facts not > fantasy. It makes your assertions stronger. It's been a while since I last bothered to check up on software that I don't run, however "60%" was the effectiveness rating at that time, and it did draw (internet) headlines. Are you seriously telling me that you hadn't encountered that? I'm talking about news stories that circulated somewhere around a year ago, if I recall correctly. It was notably surprising because of that low effectiveness rate, even running multiple anti-virus software still left a lot undetected. At the time, it was used to sink the boot into the silly notion that anti-virus software was enough to protect you from bad software. From time to time, the figure will change, but there can't be any sane argument that they're 100% effective, as it's simply not possible. I didn't bookmark the info, since I've no desire to go bookmarking every tidbit that I come across, but it's not hard to Google search this sort of thing, and come across quite a lot of less-than-encouraging info: http://www.anti-malware-test.com/?q=taxonomy/term/17 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software#Effectiveness http://blogs.cisco.com/security/comments/the_effectiveness_of_antivirus_on_new_malware_samples/ http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-popular-antivirus-apps-do-not-work-139264249.htm -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
