Latest AV-Comparatives results released

Detection test shows most products improving.

Testers at

AV-Comparatives

have released their latest set of results, with 16 products pitted against a massive set of over 1.6 million malicious samples. In general the products fared well, with all but one achieving the ‘Advanced’ or ‘Advanced+’ level.

The standard across the tested products this time was very high, with 15 of the products detecting over 90% of malware in the test set.

Microsoft

‘s

OneCare

, which early last year failed to qualify for

AV-Comparatives

‘ certification, continued on a steady line of improvement but still lagged behind most of the field, scoring 93.7%. Newcomer

VirusBlokAda

‘s

VBA32

achieved a creditable 87.7% on its first run in the test.

Top of the field were multi-scanner

AEC TrustPort

, with 99.8% overall, closely followed by

Avira

‘s

Antivir

, which notched up an impressive 99.6%, beating another multi-engine product,

G DATA

‘s

AVK

, into third.

Norman

showed particular improvement over previous tests, while several regular entrants, including

F-PROT

and

Dr.Web

, were omitted from this month’s testing.

Sophos

‘s product, absent from

AV-Comparatives

‘ statistics for some time, put in a solid performance on its return, scoring 96.6%.

Full reports on the test and detailed detection rates can be found on the

AV-Comparatives

website,

here

.

VB

‘s latest VB100 certification test, currently under way on

Windows Vista SP1

and detailing the performance of 40 separate products, will appear in next’s month issue of

Virus Bulletin

, available to subscribers only – subscription information is

here

.

Posted on 11 March 2008 by

Virus Bulletin