Well we all knew it was weak. The heuristics engine, which is what is really important in an AV product, is very very weak. But now comes confirmation from Microsoft themselves that the product is intended as a "baseline" of defense that will always be at the bottom of the AV products list.
What I find extremely funny though was this statement by Holly Stewart, who, I hope, managed to keep her position in Microsoft after this statement. She basically claims that Microsoft had a team trying to cheat the AV tests, instead of focusing on developing a better product:
"Previously, Microsoft would spend resources trying to improve Security Essentials' performance in tests. "We used to have part of our team directed towards predicting test results and figuring out what might be in someone’s test. There’s always a cost to that," she said. "If they are doing that work they are not looking at those threats that are affecting our customers. We always felt that was wrong. There’s something not right about that – we’re not doing the best job for our customers.""
You can read the entire article here: Microsoft: Security Essentials is designed to be bottom of the antivirus rankings
I wonder if Microsoft will update the product information pages with this "new" information and if Microsoft affiliates will now stop presenting MSE as the end of all desktop security, or even as "equally good to the other solutions on the market" on sites such as the Technet forums.
What I find extremely funny though was this statement by Holly Stewart, who, I hope, managed to keep her position in Microsoft after this statement. She basically claims that Microsoft had a team trying to cheat the AV tests, instead of focusing on developing a better product:
"Previously, Microsoft would spend resources trying to improve Security Essentials' performance in tests. "We used to have part of our team directed towards predicting test results and figuring out what might be in someone’s test. There’s always a cost to that," she said. "If they are doing that work they are not looking at those threats that are affecting our customers. We always felt that was wrong. There’s something not right about that – we’re not doing the best job for our customers.""
You can read the entire article here: Microsoft: Security Essentials is designed to be bottom of the antivirus rankings
I wonder if Microsoft will update the product information pages with this "new" information and if Microsoft affiliates will now stop presenting MSE as the end of all desktop security, or even as "equally good to the other solutions on the market" on sites such as the Technet forums.
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