Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Oct 2009 12:45 UTC
A little over two weeks ago, Microsoft released Microsoft Security Essentials, a security software suite protecting users of Windows against malware and viruses. The company has released data about the number of downloads and fixed infections, and the results are encouraging.
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Not true. That means exactly nothing. Throwing numbers around in a case like this proves exactly nothing. Unless you have the real number of infections and threats. The number of detections means exactly just that: the number of detections. There's no way of knowing whether those machine got infected another four million times over which were not detected. A number of detections in itself doesn't prove of disprove the goodness of MSE.
That said, I don't know or care how good or bad MSE is. Still, those numbers are not enough to prove anything.