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Offline Lisandro

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avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« on: July 01, 2012, 10:40:45 PM »
Well, it changes every day and nobody could live of past results.
But, for sure, we're seeing improvements on proactive detection each time.
We're now almost at the top of the list.

http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusDailyStats 2nd place
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusWeeklyStats 4th place
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusMonthlyStats 8th place

For sure, hybrid cloud technology, autosandbox, the CommunityIQ and other factors seems to be collaborating with that results.
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2012, 11:13:43 PM »
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 11:39:41 PM »
If we keep this position, the accumulated data will raise up the weekly and the monthly position.
Otherwise, we'll drop down.
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 11:49:45 PM »
Interesting for all of those considering jumping ship to M S E or A v i r a, they are both well down on the daily stats.
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 11:54:41 PM »
Quote from: DavidR on July 01, 2012, 11:49:45 PM
Interesting for all of those considering jumping ship to M S E or A v i r a, they are both well down on the daily stats.

Yep. ;D
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2012, 12:38:56 AM »

http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusDailyStats
This is a great link to pass onto our Gdata lover since it points out that avast! alone is better at detecting Zero Day infections.  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 12:44:09 AM »
Hi bob3160,

Isn't this just statistics at some moment in time? For me personally there are other issues that count for placing avast as my number 1 position,

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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2012, 12:46:53 AM »
Quote from: bob3160 on July 02, 2012, 12:38:56 AM
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusDailyStats
This is a great link to pass onto our Gdata lover since it points out that avast! alone is better at detecting Zero Day infections.  ;D ;D ;D

A pity he got banned already. ;)
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012, 03:19:22 AM »
Which ones Polonus?
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2012, 06:19:20 AM »
This is great to see especially since we know that some things like the auto-sandbox and behavior shield are still works in progress and will be even better in the future. Things can only get better.
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2012, 02:35:06 PM »
congrats avast!  ;D
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2012, 05:51:32 PM »
« Last Edit: July 02, 2012, 06:05:44 PM by Pondus »
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2012, 12:24:51 AM »
Thanks Pondus. Let's get back to topic :)

Today avast! took 2 of 3.
Comodo is rising and rising.
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2012, 02:13:04 AM »
Just look at the longer duration stats http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/Virus180-DayStats as these are cumulative, these would give a better indication.

Obviously the longer you go back you are into avast6 also.
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Re: avast! is becoming better and better on 0-day protection
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2012, 03:17:54 AM »
Thanks David. Seeing the day detection you can see ups and downs. The longer you take, the most stable are the results.
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