Erratum: Windows XP comparative review: McAfee VirusScan

After re-testing, McAfee’s VirusScan product gains a VB 100% award.

Unfortunately an error occurred in

Virus Bulletin’s Windows XP

comparative review (see VB June 2002, p.21): the results for

Network Associates’ McAfee VirusScan

were replaced by those for

NAI VirusScan

. The correct results for

McAfee VirusScan

are reproduced in the table below.

The samples missed by

VirusScan

were mainly in the polymorphic set, where the offending items were Sepultura, W32/CTX and W32/Fosforo. The .TMP file dropped by W32/Nimda.A was undetected both in the

XP

review and in this month’s

NetWare

tests. The file is included in the standard set as something of a curiosity file since, although it contains Nimda’s code and is dropped by Nimda, this file is not a threat under any normal circumstances.

The results reported in the review for clean set scanning and false positives were correct. In light of the fact that no false positives were encountered and all In the Wild scans resulted in full detection,

McAfee VirusScan

is rightfully awarded a VB 100 % award for its performance.

VB

offers its apologies to

Network Associates

and to readers for the confusion.

Posted on 29 August 2002 by

Virus Bulletin