VB100 comparative review on Windows 7 Professional

2010-12-01

John Hawes

Virus Bulletin

Editor: Helen Martin

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This month the VB lab team put a monster haul of products to test on Windows 7 Professional, but were disappointed by the level of unreliability, untrustworthiness and flakiness they encountered. John Hawes has all the gory details.

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