[VR-Zone] Microsoft's Security Essentials loses certification after failing AV-TEST

[ziddey]

Heh. Can't remember the virus, but it wasn't anything new. My friend got infected pretty badly, but didn't want to lose his data. I backed everything up to an external and wiped the drive. Reinstalled Windows, threw MSE on, and called it safe to plug in his external and recover files. Sure enough, immediately re-infected..

[stangracin3]

so basically what you are saying is he had something new?

[Jokester_wild]

nod32, it doesn't bother me, doesn't hog resources and does its job.

[Generic user #2]

Heh. Can't remember the virus, but it wasn't anything new. My friend got infected pretty badly, but didn't want to lose his data. I backed everything up to an external and wiped the drive. Reinstalled Windows, threw MSE on, and called it safe to plug in his external and recover files. Sure enough, immediately re-infected..

you know when you copy everything back....you actually copy back the malware right?

[kromosto]

On my Win 7 machines with KAS 2012 they work great.
I have used the latest KAS 3013 on fresh Win 7 machines and it won't install.
When running KAS 2013 there are just to many issues to keep in on my machine.

same with me on win7 machines 2012 is still the best. on my development machine i got 2013 and sometimes i see that kis2013's peak working set hits 1.5 gb.

also if you didn't noticed kis2013 makes your computer vulnerable in the opening stage. both firewall and av stays down for a while and during that time you can downlaod eicar test virus file with out a problem also blocked applications can access internet.

EDIT: i tested this problems by manually downloading eicar file and with a small app i wrote that only opens a tcp connection to www.google.com at porth 80. also haven't tried it with the new patch "d" so they may already fixed it.

[[XC] Oj101]

And this just goes to show that no matter how careful you are on the net you could still be at risk: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...en-t-Browsing&

[GoldenTiger]

common sense wont always protect you unfortunately.

Just go visit deviant art for an example of a "legitimate" website that isnt safe.. bogus ads roll through about once every two or three months it seems.


Norton just straight up sucks.

Yep... I actually had an ad on Hotmail try to infect a computer I was on, once, even. It doesn't matter how legitimate a website is, if it has external content it is a technical risk.

[Sparky]

Yep... I actually had an ad on Hotmail try to infect a computer I was on, once, even. It doesn't matter how legitimate a website is, if it has external content it is a technical risk.

Adblock isn't only a convenience, it is a safety measure!