Hi malware fighters,
The well known German AV-test.org has tested Microsoft's Security Essentials and established both strong and weak sides of the new free kid on the block Test was performed with the version that was placed online. The first part held 3732 examples of malware from the WildList, and Security Essentials detected all. Second round was a cocktail of more than 545.000 viruses, worms, backdoors, bots and Trojans. Security Essentials found 536.535, that means a detection score of 98,44%. "That is quite a good scores", according to AV=Test's Andreas Marx. The adware and spyware test with 90,95% was less good, but acceptable. Of 14.222 examples Security Essentials failed 1287.
A perfect score also was where FP's were concerned. Scanning 600.000 clean files, no FP whatsoever. "But because most files were MS files, any other result would be a big surprise", says Marx.
Achillesheel
That this is a "basic" av-scanner is shown by dynamic detection results. The av scanner had to detect malware not detected before by signatures, heuristics or in the cloud features. "No effective detection in these respects were found." No results therefore"
Removal of malware is performed as it should. it removes all active parts of malcode. But in many cases traces of infection were left behind. These were inactive executables, registry values, a disabled Windows firewall and Host-file changes.
Rootkits
But the best performance is for detection and removal of active rootkits - results here are impressive/ All 25 rootkits were successfully found up and removed. Scanspeed normal, not very fast, not very slow.
Rivals mocked the software like this:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138667/Rivals_mock_Microsoft_s_free_security_softwarepolonus
