Microsoft defends Bing against AV-TEST claims

Microsoft and anti-virus testing organisation AV-TEST are once again at loggerheads, this time over claims that the Bing search engine is allowing five times as much malware through to clients as its rivals.

Microsoft most recently came to blows with independent testing organisation AV-TEST when its Security Essentials consumer and Forefront Endpoint Protection enterprise security applications were ranked lowest out of any available packages. It was a rating that gave Microsoft's Joe Blackbird cause toquestion the group's testing methodology while claiming that customer telemetry revealed far better results than uncovered by AV-TEST's empirical testing.