The Register reports that Virus Bulletin has announced it's latest results comparing a range of antispam products. McAfee won - and by the looks of it SpamAssassin and ClamAV came last.
<deep breath> the methodology was flawed of course (oh no, I've become One of Those...). The chose SuSE10 which came with SA 3.1.8(!!) and didn't even think it unfair to compare an old product against current releases of commercial products - but there you go... Poor old ClamAV was treated similarly: ClamAV is an antivirus product - they actually tested Sanesecurity's add-on spam rules. I don't know of anyone using those rules who doesn't use them *in addition* to SA... Really didn't know much about what they were doing... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/03/anti_spam_run_off/ http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/may2009 (free registration required that gets you access to some icons with ticks and crosses in them :-/) Hopefully they will do a better job next time - I'd like to see the results myself -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
