Erratum: VBSpam comparative review May 2010

2010-06-01

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Correction to last month's VBSpam figures.

Careful scrutiny of the results of the May 2010 VBSpam comparative review (see VB, May 2010, p.24) has revealed a minor bug in the scripts used to calculate the products’ performance. As a result of this bug, the spam catch rates of six products were under-reported. False positive rates were not affected, and the ranking of the products by their final score remains the same. The correct results can be found in the table below:

	FP rate	False negatives	True positives	SC rate	Final score
BitDefender	0.14%	943	246372	99.62%	99.21
FortiMail	0.23%	4730	242585	98.09%	97.40
McAfee EWS	0.18%	2856	244459	98.85%	98.30
McAfee Email Gateway	0.50%	1481	245834	99.40%	97.90
Sophos	0.23%	762	246553	99.69%	99.01
SpamTitan	0.14%	3609	243706	98.54%	98.13

VB offers its apologies to the vendors for these errors.

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