- Jul 27, 2013
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Terri Ganzi, sorry to say but you should first learn how the software works before you start drawing any misleading and wrong conclusions.
Our products use Bitdefender + our own scan engine. Our first goal is to provide the best overall protection, while in the end it doesn't matter at all which engine detected a specific threat. Our second goal is to keep resource usage and memory consumption as low as possible. Which means we have to avoid loading two full scan engines, as they would require more than 500 MB of RAM and slow down the computer. However, since we are in full control over the sourcecode of our own one only, we can only apply modifications to our own part.
More precisely: We continuously check which threats are already detected by Bitdefender and disable all signatures in our own engine that were created to detect the same threats. At the moment we have own signatures for about 85 million different types of malware, but only about 1-2 million signatures are actively distributed via online updates to our software clients.
As a result you of course will see 99% "(B)" detections when scanning large malware archives. That's because we focus on the tiny delta on top of Bitdefender (which does a quite good job btw). Our own signatures mostly focus on brand new outbreaks. Hours later Bitdefender then usually publishes the same signatures so we can disable ours again.
If you really want to compare detection, get some brand new malware samples that are not yet shared across the whole antivirus industry and check which products are able to stop them. Tony Cole did an awesome real world test on Emsisoft Anti-Malware 9 beta lately: http://malwaretips.com/media/emsisoft-anti-malware-9-beta-youtube.61/
Our products use Bitdefender + our own scan engine. Our first goal is to provide the best overall protection, while in the end it doesn't matter at all which engine detected a specific threat. Our second goal is to keep resource usage and memory consumption as low as possible. Which means we have to avoid loading two full scan engines, as they would require more than 500 MB of RAM and slow down the computer. However, since we are in full control over the sourcecode of our own one only, we can only apply modifications to our own part.
More precisely: We continuously check which threats are already detected by Bitdefender and disable all signatures in our own engine that were created to detect the same threats. At the moment we have own signatures for about 85 million different types of malware, but only about 1-2 million signatures are actively distributed via online updates to our software clients.
As a result you of course will see 99% "(B)" detections when scanning large malware archives. That's because we focus on the tiny delta on top of Bitdefender (which does a quite good job btw). Our own signatures mostly focus on brand new outbreaks. Hours later Bitdefender then usually publishes the same signatures so we can disable ours again.
If you really want to compare detection, get some brand new malware samples that are not yet shared across the whole antivirus industry and check which products are able to stop them. Tony Cole did an awesome real world test on Emsisoft Anti-Malware 9 beta lately: http://malwaretips.com/media/emsisoft-anti-malware-9-beta-youtube.61/
