ESET Research

ESET's NOD32 is the first known anti-virus product to detect all known types of VML exploit. This detection and blocking prevents attackers from gaining control of the users PC and then running other malicious software.

ZERT is a group of security researchers who feel that the danger of the vulnerability and lack of an MS patch warrants creating their own temporary patch.

As of this writing we have not seen malicious code exploiting this vulnerability, but that does not mean it will not happen.

Scanners and behavior blockers both attempt to stop viruses, spyware and other bad programs. The approaches used by scanners and behavior blockers are complementary when a skilled user applies them.

Nothing inside the file changed, but the file is no longer "The Anti-virus test file", it is now "The Anti-Virus or Anti-Malware test file". Why the change?

There are several other factors in performing a test properly, however problems with samples and are consistently found in the really bad tests.

Anti-virus software is a lot like a goalie. No matter how good the goalie is, if the other team gets enough shots on goal then one will make it into the net.

Well, there's a right way and a wrong way. Unfortunately ConsumerReports.org didn't know of ESET's NOD32 or the right way to test for unknown viruses either.

The real answer is that there is no scientific data to support a claim that the Mac OS is a safer OS than Windows, and the truth is that it really is not the issue.