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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: SirL on March 12, 2004, 12:45:20 AM
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On http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/200403/11/20040311135925_MD/20040311135925_MD.dbp.asp you can read the reactiontime for the first Mydoom virus. Does anyone have Avast reactiontime?
Trend Micro, 9:32:00
Virusbuster, 10:02:00
AVG, 10:12:00
Inoculate IT-CA, 11:17:00
Sophos, 11:37:00
Inoculate IT-VET, 12:27:00
Esafe, 12:47:00
RAV, 14:07:00
Dr. Web , 14:07:00
Kaspersky, 14:32:00
Symantec, 14:32:00
McAfee, 14:57:00
Bitdefender, 14:57:00
Quickheal, 15:47:00
Panda, 15:57:00
Norman, 19:02:00
Antivir, 22:32:00
F-Secure, 23:02:00
F-Prot, 29:12:00.
BTW Avast rules
/SirL
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f-secure taking 23h:02m:00s??? not likely! NO WAY SYMANTEC BEAT THEM >:(
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On http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/200403/11/20040311135925_MD/20040311135925_MD.dbp.asp you can read the reactiontime for the first Mydoom virus. Does anyone have Avast reactiontime?
Trend Micro, 9:32:00
Virusbuster, 10:02:00
AVG, 10:12:00
Inoculate IT-CA, 11:17:00
Sophos, 11:37:00
Inoculate IT-VET, 12:27:00
Esafe, 12:47:00
RAV, 14:07:00
Dr. Web , 14:07:00
Kaspersky, 14:32:00
Symantec, 14:32:00
McAfee, 14:57:00
Bitdefender, 14:57:00
Quickheal, 15:47:00
Panda, 15:57:00
Norman, 19:02:00
Antivir, 22:32:00
F-Secure, 23:02:00
F-Prot, 29:12:00.
BTW Avast rules
/SirL
I do not know if this article really speaks about the first Mydoom incident (some numbers look really strange and the results are totally different from what I know) but this is a main source (http://www.pcwelt.de/news/viren_bugs/37278/4.html) of the original response test which contains avast! as well.
BTW: I have found this article (http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3316511) which discusses the average response time for four virus outbreaks. While you might argue about the number and selection of those viruses (some started very quickly while others not) it is still interesting reading - and avast! beats Sophos, Dr.Web, Trend Micro, Panda, MsAfee and Symantec in this comparison ;) !
And another BTW: avast! times should be even better, because the testers use the VPSUPD.EXE file to update their scanner. This file is however uploaded on our web site maybe 20 minutes after the incremental iAVS update is released (it does not have such high priority and it takes some time to manage and update all our servers).
Pavel
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H:M Anti-Virus Program
06:51 Kaspersky
08:21 Bitdefender
08:45 Virusbuster
09:08 F-Secure
09:16 F-Prot
09:16 RAV
09:24 AntiVir
10:31 Quickheal
10:52 InoculateIT-CA
11:30 Ikarus
12:00 AVG
12:17 Avast
12:22 Sophos
12:31 Dr. Web
13:06 Trend Micro
13:10 Norman <-------- *What?
13:59 Command
14:04 Panda
17:16 Esafe
24:12 A2
26:11 McAfee
27:10 Symantec
29:45 InoculateIT-VET
I'm not aware of a Norman! lol ;D
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I'm not aware of a Norman! lol ;D
Then, you should check their webpage - www.norman.com - and you will be ;D
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Reaction times a little bit higher but, please, less false positives and more tests before VPS releases :'(
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Ahhh... I see. ;D
Still... I've never heard of them.
Agreed Technical.
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Hi Technical,
Reaction times a little bit higher but, please, less false positives and more tests before VPS releases :'(
Do you think we do not provide enough false positives tests? Well, I do not think so. We have a huge collection of different systems/shareware/freeware/commercial software which today contains abou 120 GB of executables and is still growing. We do not let go out the VPS which does detect abything in this set. But we simply can't test all SW around the globe - it is impossible task.
As I said in another thread, it is a piry that you did not send us the files before - actually they were detected twice (once as AutoIt and secondly as Trojan-gens) but without the files we were not able to discover the second FP.
I still can't imagine more thorough tests than we are doing now. Any suggestions?
Pavel
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Sorry Pavel... Of course I'm not saying that you do not work hard. You know... just an unhappy user from time to time... I have my computer blocked...
Didn't you receive my files yesterday? I sent at least 5 scripts compiled with AutoIt 2.64? :-\
If you want I'll send them again...
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As I said in another thread, it is a piry that you did not send us the files before - actually they were detected twice (once as AutoIt and secondly as Trojan-gens) but without the files we were not able to discover the second FP.
Pavel,
I can't imagine anyone working as hard as your staff does. A post in this thread referenced an online report that averaged the results of company responses to four different infections. Three of the "averages" posted only included responses to three attacks, since the heuristics built into the virus scanners caught some viruses without having to develop a new solution.
While that speaks well of the heuristics, it clouds the issue of how fast a company responds to NEW threats. If those companies had been given an average based on THREE tests (not four), they would have fallen in the rankings.
Also, the article points out that companies that have far more staff obviously find antidotes faster. Frankly, if I compare the avast staff size (was that picture I saw posted in another thread accurate) to Kaspersky, I think I feel comfortable that you guys are doing a remarkable job.
I also assume there is some cooperation in the industry as a whole, but I might be wrong there.
There was another factor that was not considered completely in the article, though it was touched on. It doesn't matter how quickly a correction is found if you aren't informed about it. I previously used AVG. The auto-update on AVG will not automatically download an update until AT LEAST 24 HOURS after the last update. Normally, that's fine. But lately, with all the new viruses, you can wait nearly 48 hours before AVG triggers an update, depending on when the update was last done in relation to when a virus is discovered. With avast, as soon as the fix is available, it's downloaded! How good is that!
All in all, I'm very happy with avast.
P.S.
The latest update no longer reported the false alarm on that Trojan.gen file I forwarded to you. Thank you very much! :)
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Well said, JE!
and welcome to the forums..
cojo
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I think the avast! crew does the best job of the 4 AV programs I have used. In the past, I have used Norton, AVG, & McAfee. I was really disappointed with the last 2 versions of McAfee. :(
I am now using avast! with much pleasure. :)
Way to go ALWIL team! :)