*Source: PC World (
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...article.html)*
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Microsoft Windows Live OneCare climbed from dead last in March to 14th place in a test of 17 antivirus programs, an Austrian security researcher reported Friday.
Andreas Cleminti's AV Comparatives latest test pitted the top antivirus software against the 20,000-some threats that debuted during the last three months to measure how well each could finger unknown exploits. Cleminti stopped updating each product's virus database, or "signature," Feb. 2, but continued to probe their defenses with every newly discovered virus, malicious script, worm, Trojan, or backdoor until May 2.
"Even if most antivirus products provide daily or hourly [signature] updates, without heuristic/generic methods [of detection] there is always a time frame where the user is not protected," Cleminti said in the report issued Friday.
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