Microsoft Security Essentials was detected 98% viruses

Free Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials was detected 98% of more than half a million samples of malicious code. During the test conducted by AV-Test.org, is released on September 29 anti-virus program was rated "very good".

Testing conducted on Windows XP Service Pack 3, Vista SP2 and Windows 7 final version.

The tests took place in two stages. First Security Essentials was asked to identify the 3,7 thousands of viruses, trojans and worms taken from a fresh list of WildList. The product is detected, all samples from this list. Then antivirus was invited 545.344 samples.

Security Essentials 536.535 samples was detected, accounting for 98,4% of the total. In a further test for the detection of spyware and adware antivirus showed the result in 90,9%. The program also found all of the 25 rootkits.

However, experts from the AV-Test.org argue that despite good performance in our tests, Security Essentials still has one major drawback - the program does not have any technology, such as heuristic analysis, which can detect unknown viruses.

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