Latest test results from Andreas Marx

[FreewheelinFrank]

Andreas Marx of AV-Test.org has completed his latest tests on AV engines. From his notes:

    We tested 29 products for the detection of most recently seen verified working Win32 PE malware of the last 12 month -- separated into the four categories backdoors, bots, trojan horses and worms.

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/latest-test-results-from-andreas-marx.html

[DavidR]

Not bad 8th of 29 tested and avast with 'no heuristics' gained 96.32%

Products were set with their most aggressive detection options, such as using all heuristics and testing inside archives.

http://www.appscout.com/2007/05/antivirus_shootout_in_magdebur.php

[drhayden1]

Limiting the list to products that we've reviewed in PC Magazine, the top scorer was Avira's Antivir, with 99% detection overall. F-Secure, Symantec, and Kaspersky all came close with 98% detection. Avast!, AVG, and BitDefender weren't far behind at 96%. From that point, though, scores start to trail off. Panda got 92%, Trend Micro got 91%, NOD32 88% and McAfee 87%. Microsoft's OneCare didn't come in dead last, as it did in an earlier test, but it only detected 81% of the threats.

great news for avast!-it just keeps getting better and better
thanks for the info and links

[rdmaloyjr]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/208039;_ylt=Aq_LVQXFuHPW4h8BlG1xwyUjtBAF

[drhayden1]

Here is the full data set:
Program   # Detected   Detection %
WebWasher   605,846   99.83%
AVK 2007   604,255   99.56%
AntiVir   603,408   99.42%
F-Secure   594,333   97.93%
Symantec   593,355   97.77%
Kaspersky   592,606   97.64%
Fortinet   589,028   97.06%
Avast!   584,574   96.32%
AVG   583,541   96.15%
Rising   582,772   96.02%
BitDefender   580,700   95.68%
Norman   574,476   94.66%
Ikarus   561,607   92.54%
Panda   558,899   92.09%
Trend Micro   552,107   90.97%
Nod32   536,043   88.32%
McAfee   529,680   87.28%
Dr Web   520,959   85.84%
F-Prot   517,491   85.27%
VBA32   498,264   82.10%
Sophos   496,135   81.75%
eSafe   495,074   81.57%
Microsoft   488,942   80.56%
Ewido   456,660   75.24%
VirusBuster   441,341   72.72%
Command   414,036   68.22%
ClamAV   387,276   63.81%
QuickHeal   382,557   63.03%
eTrust-VET   376,983   62.12%

96.32% not bad at all avast!
ahead of AVG

[mouniernetwork]

Congratulation Alwil Software 
Avast is above AVG but not by far, so keep up the good work 

Al968

[CharleyO]

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Way to go avast team!!!   


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[DavidR]

Congratulation Alwil Software 
Avast is above AVG but not by far, so keep up the good work 

But way above Nod32, very strange, but don't forget this is just detection alone and doesn't speak for flexibility, configuration and specific protection in certain areas, web shield, instant messaging, p2p, etc. which in some cases others don't have.

Detections in isolation aren't everything, support is another thing.