Avast! got good result in VirusBulletin's RAP test

[yongsua]

Yes, it is some what strange that avira free scored more when compared avira premium...

avira premium has better scanning engine than avira free....

don't be misunderstanding.Avira free and Avira premium using the same engine but Avira Pro is different engine.

Conclusion: Avira Free = Avira premium(same engine).Avira Pro is different engine(Corporate product).

[EdisnaecoIMVU]

Here the link is:http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index

I am glad that avast! did better than ESET.

as far as I can see ESET did better than avast. But no matter in just few months we will on top...

Look closly 

I put avast in blue eset in green and pink line to show you avast won over eset.

[ANHTHU5991]

i used eset for 2 years before using avast. I think eset is really strong

[Lisandro]

I put avast in blue eset in green and pink line to show you avast won over eset.

In one direction, not in the other

[Omid Farhang]

It seems Avira Free and Avira Pro weren't tested at the same time:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/summary

While the Pro version was tested four times during October and April, the Free was only tested twice. That's why they have different result in there.

Avira Free and Pro use same engine and same Virus database, only difference is that Avira paid version (Premium/Professional) has ProActive (silent Behavior Guard / Cloud) and Web/Mail guard which Avira free has not. The Difference between Premium and Professional is ability to scan network drives and other managements over network which Premium/Free has not.

[Silk0]

98.4% on AV-C and now with ~95% on VB, I think that avast! is getting a good performance so far.

Congratulations for the good work, Avast team.

[scythe944]

I just find it weird that I've never heard of Coranti before.  Nice detection for them though.

[Yanto.Chiang]

It seems Avira Free and Avira Pro weren't tested at the same time:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/summary

While the Pro version was tested four times during October and April, the Free was only tested twice. That's why they have different result in there.

Avira Free and Pro use same engine and same Virus database, only difference is that Avira paid version (Premium/Professional) has ProActive (silent Behavior Guard / Cloud) and Web/Mail guard which Avira free has not. The Difference between Premium and Professional is ability to scan network drives and other managements over network which Premium/Free has not.

Hi Omid,

I agreed with your statement, since Kaspersky also listed with the 3 version of Kaspersky.

I think from the vendor site asking VB100 to did the test with different types.

cheers,

[Chris Thomas]

I am surprised that there are a lot of AV software under their list, i didn't think about learning some of their names

[Lisandro]

I am surprised that there are a lot of AV software under their list, i didn't think about learning some of their names

Keep only one in your mind

[NON]

It seems Avira Free and Avira Pro weren't tested at the same time:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/summary

While the Pro version was tested four times during October and April, the Free was only tested twice. That's why they have different result in there.

Avira Free and Pro use same engine and same Virus database, only difference is that Avira paid version (Premium/Professional) has ProActive (silent Behavior Guard / Cloud) and Web/Mail guard which Avira free has not. The Difference between Premium and Professional is ability to scan network drives and other managements over network which Premium/Free has not.

I see, so this is the reason. A little confusing, though.

[AdrianH]

Now see the AV comparative tests results ......


http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews/detection-test


http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_feb2011.pdf

DETECTION RATES % OF 403,000 SAMPLES
1. G DATA - 99.8%
2. Trustport - 99.2%
3. Avast - 98.4%
4. Panda / F-secure - 98.1%
5. Qihoo - 97.9%
6. BitDefender - 97.6%
7. Avira / ESET - 97.5%
8. eScan - 97.4%
9. Kaspersky - 97.0%
10. McAfee - 96.8%
11. Microsoft - 95.8%
12. Norton - 95.5%
13. Trend Micro - 94.4%
14. Sophos - 94.1%
15. PC Tools - 92.8%
16. AVG - 91.4%
17. Webroot - 85.5%
18. K7 - 84.4%

[GloobyGoob]

Now see the AV comparative tests results ......


http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews/detection-test


http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_feb2011.pdf

DETECTION RATES % OF 403,000 SAMPLES
1. G DATA - 99.8%
2. Trustport - 99.2%
3. Avast - 98.4%
4. Panda / F-secure - 98.1%
5. Qihoo - 97.9%
6. BitDefender - 97.6%
7. Avira / ESET - 97.5%
8. eScan - 97.4%
9. Kaspersky - 97.0%
10. McAfee - 96.8%
11. Microsoft - 95.8%
12. Norton - 95.5%
13. Trend Micro - 94.4%
14. Sophos - 94.1%
15. PC Tools - 92.8%
16. AVG - 91.4%
17. Webroot - 85.5%
18. K7 - 84.4%

Nice, avast beat Avira..
Too bad that the FP's lowered their overall score. Anyway, avast is still on top when it comes to scanning speed.

[Dieselman]

False positives are no big deal as long as they aren't critical system files.

[Silk0]

False positives are no big deal as long as they aren't critical system files.

Yes and as you can see, the FP's from avast! (page. 4) only reaches a maximum of Level 2 on severity scale. (1 to 5)
http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/fp/avc_fp_feb2011.pdf