AV-Comparatives ~ Retrospective/Proactive Test ~ May 2011

[Mark]

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

 

[Jack]

Proactive detection of new malware :
G-data : 61%
ESET,Avira : 59%
Kaspersky : 55%
Panda : 52%
Trustport : 38%
Microsoft : 36%
F-Secure , Bitdefender : 35%
Quihoo,eScan : 34%
Sophos : 23%

Most noticeable in the FP section : Quihoo - 104 ... next ESET - 20,Panda and G-data - 18



Avira and Kaspersky won the Advance+ award.

 

[mhartsellm]

Check out the Whole Product Dynamic Tests results and you'll see Norton Internet Security lead the way with only .3% compromised

 

[Jack]

Check out the Whole Product Dynamic Tests results and you'll see Norton Internet Security lead the way with only .3% compromised

fftopic: to be fair the exact score is : NIS : 99,3% + 0,4% User dependent , so it can also be 0,7% :.. and that's when AVC tested the whole product.:666:

The results above just show the proactive (generic/heuristic) file dection capabilites of the scan engines against 0 day malware.
From my experience Kaspersky has a pretty good heuristic engine and can detect a good ammount of malicious samples even if it dosen't have signatures for them
I never managed to play with G-data because for some unknown reason it always manages to freeze my system.

 

[jamescv7]

No surprise for Avira in retrospective test, they must produce a new version and for their FP its a low so next time they can make heuristics high at default.