Popular Vista Anti-Virus Programs Fail

Microsoft’s much-hyped anti-virus solution, Live OneCare, as well as McAfee’s VirusScan Enterprise, G DATA’s AntiVirusKit 2007, and Norman’s VirusControl all failed to pass a series of tests that are required to achieve the company’s VB100 certification. “With the number of delays that we’ve seen in Vista’s release, there’s no excuse for security vendors not to have got their products right by now,’ said John Hawes, technical consultant at Virus Bulletin.

The fact that these “issues” are not ironed out by now makes me scratch my head. Vista was available to business partners for over two months prior to public launch, so there was plenty of time to produce a far more solid application. This is just another reason why Vista is more of a hassle than it should be, at least at this point in time.

Source: TechBlorge