Report: six anti-virus solutions pass annual Linux test

Clean sweep of passes in VB100 test on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

2015 will yet again not be the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’, yet behind the scenes’

Linux

plays an important role in many organisations by running the servers on which files are stored centrally. Such servers could easily become centres of malware infection; hence a number of companies offer anti-malware solutions that aim to protect them.

In

VB

‘s annual VB100 test on

Linux

, John Hawes and his team tested six of these solutions —

Avast

,

AVG

,

Bitdefender

,

eScan

,

ESET

and

Kaspersky

— all of which achieved a VB100 award.

As always, readers are encouraged to read the full test report, which contains full details on the products’ detection rates, performance and stability. The report can be viewed

here

in HTML format, or downloaded

here

as a PDF (no registration required).

Posted on 01 May 2015 by

Martijn Grooten