MS Security Essentials test shows 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples
According to recent tests conducted by AV-Test.org aiming to measure the performance of Microsoft’s Security Essentials, the freeware application achieved 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples including viruses, bots, trojan horses, backdoors and Internet worms, also achieving 90.95% detection rate for 14,222 adware/spyware samples it was tested against.
However, AV-Test.org didn’t find any effective “dynamic [...]
