About Me

Chris Barton

Chris Barton
Having been with "big red" since the Dr Solomons acquisition Chris has seen many come and go but is never content to be ...

Read More

Feeds & Podcasts

Blogs

Meet the Bloggers

Archive

Tags

#SecChat $1 million guarantee 12 Scams of Christmas access to live fraud resolution agents Acquisition Alex Thurber Android antivirus Apple botnet Channel Partners cloud security Compliance Consumer counter identity theft credit card fraud and protection credit fraud alerts credit monitoring credit monitoring and resolution critical infrastructure Cyber Security Mom cyberbullying Cybercrime cybermom data breach data center data center security Data Protection Dave DeWalt DLP Email & Web Security embedded encryption Endpoint Protection enterprise facebook fake anti-virus software Family Safety Friday Security Highlights global threat intelligence google government Hacktivism how to talk to kids how to talk to teens identity fraud identity fraud scams identity protection identity protection $1 million guarantee identity protection fraud identity protection surveillance identity surveillance identity theft identity theft expert identity theft fraud identity theft protection identity theft protection product Identity thieves and cybercriminals intel iphone kids online behavior lost wallet protection malware McAfee McAfee Channel McAfee Family Protection McAfee Identity Protection McAfee Initiative to Fight Cybercrime McAfee Labs McAfee security products Mid-Market Mobile mobile malware mobile security monitor credit and personal information Network Security online personal data protection online safety Operation Aurora PCI personal identity theft fraud personal information loss personal information protection phishing privacy proactive identity protection proactive identity surveillance Public Sector restore credit and personal identity Risk and Compliance scam scams scareware security smartphones social media social networking social networks spam Stuxnet twitter vulnerability Web 2.0 work with victim restore identity

McAfee Labs :

Lowest False Alarm Award!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 8:02am by Chris Barton
Chris Barton

Igor Muttik just had a parcel arrive whilst I was nearby. McAfee has just won the Lowest False Alarm Rate award from AV Comparatives for VirusScan.

Award

….I didn’t stay for the speech ;)

For those who do not know, false alarms are caused where an anti-virus product detects a clean file as infected and is something all AV companies try hard to avoid. Recognition that we’ve got the lowest false alarm rate on test is awesome.

Bookmark and Share

Submit your own comments / message for this post

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

 

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Comments (7)

  • Rich March 8, 2009 8:04AM

    I’m also worried about McAfee’s false alarms about files compressed with PECompact.

    I help small businesses secure their data, and I will recommend against using McAfee because of false alarms against PECompact compressed files.

    Why? Because some of my company’s software is going to be compressed using PECompact 2.98 in March 2009 and I don’t need the support hassle caused by McAfee’s false alarms.

    Reply
  • Jim Baker March 1, 2009 5:07AM

    It still seems like just about every executable handled with PECompact (i. e. thousands of innocent programs!) is falsely accused of being a “Generic.dx” trojan by McAfee. Will this ever be fixed? E. g. Kaspersky has no problem unpacking PECompact and analysing the actual program, instead of false alarming on the compressor…

    Reply
  • Security Patrol January 25, 2009 6:00PM

    Congrats! I’ve been a loyal McAfee user for years. Glad to see a great product get recognition.

    Reply
  • Johnno January 23, 2009 12:23AM

    One detection name – many problems:

    generic.dx

    Somehow I don’t think Avert will win the award again next year.

    Reply
  • Fred January 21, 2009 12:27AM

    Wow. Really? Other AV products muse be really bad at false positives for McAfee to win the top spot.

    Reply
  • jcanto January 20, 2009 11:41PM

    Congratulations :) FP is going to be a really hot topic this year onwards.

    Reply
  • Eric January 20, 2009 10:52AM

    Pretty ironic, considering I just spent most of this weekend dealing with a false-positive alarm due to the 5498 and 5499 DAT files.

    Reply