Microsoft Security Essentials fall through at AV-Test
The free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) have in recent comparison test by AV-Test is not the only anti-virus program meets the requirements for certification. The lab is every two months out his results. In the pretest the Microsoft Scanner had cut even good enough to be certified. Last failed MSE is two years ago.
AV test examines the protection performance, the operability and performance of the disinfection protection programs, wherein the test candidates summarized at best can achieve 18 points. For the certificate at least 11 points are needed, where MSE is at 10.5 points slightly scarred over. Two months ago, Microsoft's anti-virus program has yet reached 12.5 points.
The decline pervades all range: for a half point in the protection and use and a whole during disinfection. The protective power this is due primarily to the MSE that has blocked less current threats: from newly arrived malware samples in October has MSE detected only about 64 percent, while the average is 89 percent. Two to three months old MSE recognized pests to 90 percent, with an average of 97 percent.
"We can no longer recommend MSE in its current state," said AV-Test CEO Andreas Marx told heise Security. "Other tested free programs like Avast, AVG, Avira, or Check Point (Zone Alarm) offer in this area [protection, editor's note] significantly improves performance. Also the repair capacity is higher in most cases," he added. MSE in the test points could especially with good values in resource consumption and false alarms.
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