Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39% of malware in Dennis test

While the other eight packages all achieved protection scores of 87% or higher - with five scoring 98% or 99% - Microsoft's free antivirus software protected against only 61% of the malware samples used in the test.

Microsoft conceded last year that its security software was intended to offer only "baseline" performance, saying it wanted to "give customers a good reason to pay for their [security] products" because that would create greater diversity in the market and make life harder for malware writers.

Nevertheless, the company insisted that Security Essentials provided "strong, comprehensive defence against malicious code and attacks".

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