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Virus detection

TimRay

I am evaluating a few different AV packages with a view to moving away from Symantec Endpoint Protection which I am unhappy with. As part of my evaluation of each package I have downloaded a collection of viruses from virussig.com and scanned them to see how many are identified.

With Sophos, if I create a new scan and include just the folder containing the viruses (sub-folders are automatically selected) it doesn't find a single virus. However, if i right-click on the folder and select Scan with Sophos Anti Virus, it detects 579 viruses (incidentally Kaspersky found 2600 in the same folder but that's a differnt matter). Can anyone explain why the normal  scan doesn't find these viruses but the right-click does.

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    Thanks Christain - I  just found that out for myself - it does seem a very strange default scan option though surely the default is scan everyhting unless the user excludes something.

    I appreciate what you say about the viruses i downloaded but as I said before you cannot evaluate a product without finding a virus and this is a safe and controlled test which i can repeat with different av solutions. The results don't mean much but do allow me test the software fully thus avoiding surprises when users encounter viruses.

    I'll continue with my evaluation

    Thanks for the explanation

    Tim

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    Thanks Christain - I  just found that out for myself - it does seem a very strange default scan option though surely the default is scan everyhting unless the user excludes something.

    I appreciate what you say about the viruses i downloaded but as I said before you cannot evaluate a product without finding a virus and this is a safe and controlled test which i can repeat with different av solutions. The results don't mean much but do allow me test the software fully thus avoiding surprises when users encounter viruses.

    I'll continue with my evaluation

    Thanks for the explanation

    Tim

    :14843
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