Antivirus Tools Underperform When Tested in LinuxWorld ‘Fight Club’

“Oh, antivirus products. They’re a commodity item, right?
They’re all pretty much the same.

“Wrong, according to a live test of antivirus products for Linux
conducted last night at the LinuxWorld event in San Francisco.

“In an antivirus ‘fight club’ conducted in front of an audience
by network gateway vendor Untangle at the show, 10 antivirus
products were confronted with 25 viruses, many submitted by members
of the audience. The goal: to see whether the AV tools would catch
’em all…”

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