> GMX released a paper where they were comparing the four biggest e-mail > provider in Germany and how successful the most known viruses are > > caught by the e-mail software.
What does 'most known' mean ? > They were testing the following providers and virus software: > > http://www.1und1.de (Symantec) > http://www.gmx.de (Sophos Anti-Virus) > http://www.web.de (ClamAV) > http://www.freenet.de (ClamAV) > > Now they say that Symantec and Sophos caught 100% of all the viruses, > and ClamAV only got 54%! At least Symantec has full access to all WildList.org virus samples because that "independent" organization was founded, among others, by the members of the SARC staff. After the infamous article about ClamAV in heise.de (in which they criticized Web.de for using our software) we contacted WildList.org (on Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:56:33 +0100) but never received any answer. Personally, I don't consider that test independent. Expecially that '100%' for Sophos and Symantec is rather surprising, because we have many samples (including recent ones) that are missed by both of them. Anyway, I think not only ClamAV but also WildList.org and the famous German A-V specialist should refresh their ItW collection. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Sun Mar 28 15:35:47 CEST 2004
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