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AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« on: October 07, 2009, 08:06:24 PM »
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Almost half of the products did not manage to meet these requirements: 15 products passed the test, leaving 11 products to fail. Here are the ones that passed and failed, as well as the reason for not passing:

more : http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/10/antivir-10-others-fail-virus-bulletins-october-2009-test.ars

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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 08:22:11 PM »
11 Pass: Alwil avast!, AVG I.S. Network Edition, BitDefender Security, CA eTrust, eScan Internet Security, ESET NOD32, F-Secure Anti-Virus, G Data AntiVirus, K7 Total Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee VirusScan, Microsoft Forefront, Quick Heal AntiVirus Lite, Symantec Endpoint, and Trustport Antivirus 2009.

15 Fail: AhnLab V3Net (171 wildlist misses), Authentium Command (159 wildlist misses), Avira AntiVir Server (1 wildlist miss), Filseclab Twister (5655 wildlist misses, 1 false positive), Fortinet FortiClient (38 wildlist misses), Frisk F-PROT (159 wildlist misses), Ikarus virus.utilities (3759 wildlist misses, 4 false positives), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Advanced (98 wildlist misses), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Standard (2461 wildlist misses), Sophos Anti-Virus (1 wildlist miss), and VirusBuster for Servers (5 wildlist misses).

On the other side of the tests, we should note that Microsoft's success with its Forefront product is promising not only for business users, but for consumers as well, given that it uses the same engine as the newly released Microsoft Security Essentials.
« Last Edit: October 07, 2009, 08:24:37 PM by Tech »
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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 10:24:38 PM »
Congrats ALWIL Software. ;D Alway in the top by now ;)

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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2009, 09:35:50 AM »
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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2009, 10:11:51 AM »
Bravo, Avast!  :)

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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2009, 11:06:01 AM »
Actually the part about Forefront and MSE isn't exactly true. MSE is using former and highly modified RAV engine, wghile Forefront is using Fortinet as far as i remember.
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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2009, 02:25:44 PM »
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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2009, 02:34:31 PM »
Gratz avast!
Way to go defeating all those other products^^

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Re: AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2009, 07:22:38 AM »
Great work avast.  ;D