avast! Free Antivirus wins 12th straight VB100 award

[Dieselman]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 11, 2011 – avast! Free Antivirus won its twelfth straight VB100 award for malware detection for AVAST Software in the latest Virus Bulletin test. avast! Free Antivirus combined high scanning speed with very good detection skills that exceeded the best that many paid-for consumer and high-end business products could offer.

http://www.avast.com/pr-avast-free-antivirus-wins-12th-straight-vb100-award?utm_campaign=14-04-11_VB100_award&utm_content=157677350&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Mktg_Newsletter

 

[Jack]

Nice..But I have a question, Is avast the only vendor who achived this performance?

 

[Dieselman]

The graph says it all.

 

[Ink]

Is Microsoft Security Essentials in that list or did I miss it? No Norton either?

 

[Jack]

The graph says it all.

This graph?

Who in the right mind cares about Ram Usage Increase When scaning? :lolz: ... and yes,like storm said ..where is MSE and NIS ?
Also Emsisfot on 2nd place.. Nice..the bad part is that "Ram Usage Increase When scaning" is the last thing I care about

When I asked : Is avast the only vendor who achived this performance?
i was refering to the " avast! Free Antivirus won its twelfth straight VB100 award for malware detection" part.

 

[Dieselman]

Well I sure do. Some people like to run a scan while still doing other stuff. NIS and KIS running a full scan eat my ram and cpu. Avira did also. Avast scans are not even noticible and I have everything maxed out. Scan times are very fast also.

Full Scan Times:

NIS = 1.5 hours
KIS = 2 hours
Avast = 36 minutes

Thats with the same amount of files being scanned (700,000)

 

[Jack]

How can NIS or KIS..or any security software eat 2 to 4 GB of Ram? :shok: ... maybe they eat your CPU... ?
Also are you sure about NIS and 1.5 hours?As far as I can remember NIS has some advanced scanning technologies , that skips know files from scaning...

 

[mhartsellm]

You are correct Jack, Norton's initial scan does take awhile but after that it is very quick. Norton scans automatically during idle times so there are no need for manual scans at all.

I just started a manual scan as a test and the slowdown I experienced was nil.

 

[Dieselman]

Jack......................Come on now. I used NIS for almost 2 years. Do you think I would lie about the scan times? The Norton Community is suppose to limit the scan times and ignore trusted files but my scan results did not show that. The Norton Community would prevent NIS for scanning known trusted files in real time but not when doing an on demand full scan or scheduled. Did I say they would eat 2-4GB of ram. No. But using 200MB while scanning is very high. Avast uses about 15MB while running a full scan and right now as I type its only using 7MB just sitting there (no scan).

An explanation of InSight from Symantec.

Norton Insight: This exclusive Norton technology helps protect without sacrificing performance by identifying trusted files that do not require repeated scanning for faster, fewer scans.

 

[Jack]

Turns out that not only Avast has 12th straight VB100 awards...... In fact if someone needs to brag is ESET....!!! :lolz:

Test history Avast vs ESET

Avast

ESET

VB100 certifications history, for the last 20 tests over the past 3 years on various platforms:

• Avast: 17 pass, 3 fails
• AVG: 18 pass, 2 fails
• Avira: 17 pass, 3 fails
• BitDefender: 11 pass, 4 fails, 5 tests not entered
• Comodo Internet Security: 1 pass, 2 fails, 1 test not entered
• Coranti: 3 pass, 2 fails, 1 test not entered
• Emsisoft: 2 pass, 3 fails, 2 tests not entered
• ESET: 20 pass, 0 fail
• F-Secure: 9 pass, 0 fail, 11 tests not entered
• G Data: 11 pass, 1 fail, 8 tests not entered
• Kaspersky: 15 pass, 4 fails, 1 test not entered
• McAfee: 12 pass, 4 fails, 4 tests not entered
• Norman: 9 pass, 8 fails, 8 tests not entered
• Symantec: 14 pass, 1 fails, 5 tests not entered
• Trustport: 12 pass, 2 fails, 6 tests not entered

Vendors who manage to get 5 straight VB100 awards (Aug 2010-2011 Round Tests)

 

[McLovin]

Wow...where is Trend Micro on these charts?

Plus they look very interesting...shows how much avast cares about ram increase usage

 

[Jack]

Plus they look very interesting...shows how much avast cares about ram increase usage

My take : No,Avast dosen't really care about "Ram Usage Increase When scaning" ...but this is the only chart in which they are on the top..... :lolz:
They are using a marketing tehnique to suggest to people they are NO. 1 ! , you see people will always look for "the best" in everything.
People have no idea that "Ram Usage Increase When scaning" is in number 100 in a list that shows whats important and what's not in a security solution!

To Avast : Can we please see the "CPU Usage Increase When scaning" ... ?

 

[jamescv7]

Wow...where is Trend Micro on these charts?

Seems Trend Micro is not listed there. Just checked the list of summary there.

 

[Dieselman]

CPU usage while scanning is about none. Honestly. I will run a full scan and take a screen shot of Process Hacker.