Re: Free antivirus software

["Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>]

Hi Geo,

I do removal tests for spyware/adware only. The virus detection scores come
from AV-Test.org and at the time, removal results for those particular
products weren't readily available to me. (This doesn't mean that
AV-Test.org does not have them or did not at the time - please interpret my
limited answer as *my* limitation and not a reflection of AV-Test.org). West
Coast Labs performs removal testing as part of their Anti-Virus Level 2
certification (all ItW viruses are included in these tests according to
their documentation). You can find a list of Anti-Virus Level 2 certified
products at:

http://www.westcoastlabs.org/cm-av-list.asp?Cat_ID=2

AV-Test.org is a project of the Business-Information-Workgroup at the
Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems at the
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany)  in cooperation with
AV-Test GmbH. For details, visit: http://www.av-test.org/

I agree that virus removal tests would be a nice addition to the review -
unfortunately my resources (time) only allow for spyware/adware.

-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geo." <geoincidents () nls net>
To: <full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Free antivirus software


> Review: Free Antivirus Software
> http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirussoftwarereviews/a/freeav.htm

I believe I've seen Mary post here before, so if you're reading Mary, how
come this time you didn't test removal capabilities? Lots of times people
don't actually go looking for a free AV program until they need to scan and
clean their machine so removal is an important feature.

Geo.

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