Question about AVG6.0 free..

[Comp01]

How good is AVG at finding Trojan horses? (If it can at all) As most virus scanners include atleast a few Trojan horses..

[Paul Wilders]

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How good is AVG at finding Trojan horses? (If it can at all) As most virus scanners include atleast a few Trojan horses..
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Mediocre ;).

regards.

paul

[Peaches4U]

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-{ Quote: " quoting: Comp01 link=board=24;threadid=16536;start=0#msg102439 date=1069197690]
How good is AVG at finding Trojan horses? (If it can at all) As most virus scanners include atleast a few Trojan horses..
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Mediocre ;).

regards.

paul
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So how does BitDefender compare to AVG? ???

[Comp01]

Hmm, I dont know, although, I am downloading Bit Defender free right now, I will download the Demo Trojan, and test it..

[subratam]

i have AVG 7 pro licensed... umm i would say its resident shield is very good and also updates are very well made very often... i hav two AVs NAV and AVG... both run at background with their residents and they are doing great job... ya they need to be updated

[bigc73542]

http://www.claymania.com/tests-trojan.html



this is an older test but it might give you an idea how they rate


The main web site is: http://www.av-test.org

Chart #1. 1,367 Trojans considered to be infrequently seen.
Web site source:
http://trojaner-info.de/test_07_2001_kaumtrojan.shtml
* ***
Program
***
# Detected
***
Percent
1.
***AVK 10.0.1.0 (V) ***
1366
***
99.93 %
2.
***Kaspersky Anti-Virus 3.5.133.0 (V) ***
1364
***
99.78 %
3.
***McAfee VirusScan 5.12 (V) ***
1339
***
97.95 %
4.
***Panda AntiVirus 6.0 Platinum (6.22.00) (V) ***
1241
***
90.78 %
5.
***RAV AntiVirus 8.2.1.12 (V) ***
1164
***
85.15 %
6.
***F-Secure 5.21 (V) ***
1059
***
77.47 %
7.
***F-Prot 3.09a (V) ***
955
***
69.86 %
8.
***Command 4.61 (V) ***
954
***
69.79 %
8.
***FP-Win 3.09 (V) ***
954
***
69.79 %
9.
***Norman Virus Control 5.00.24 (V) ***
931
***
68.11 %
10.
***InoculateIT 6.0 Advanced Edition 6.0.85 (V) ***
866
***
63.35 %
11.
***PC-cillin 7.51 (V) ***
785
***
57.43 %
12.
***Sophos Anti-Virus 3.45 (V) ***
662
***
48.43 %
13.
***DrWeb 4.24b (V) ***
651
***
47.62 %
14.
***AntiVir PE 6.07.00.51 (V) ***
648
***
47.40 %
15.
***AntiVir Pro 6.07.00.00 (V) ***
632
***
46.23 %
16.
***AVX 5.9.3 (V) ***
579
***
42.36 %
17.
***Norton AntiVirus 2001 (7.00.51F) (V) ***
441
***
32.26 %
18.
***NOD32 Anti-Virus 1.86 (V) ***
351
***
25.68 %
19.
***PC Door Guard (T) ***
192
***
14.05 %
20.
***The Cleaner 3.2 build 3213 (T) ***
186
***
13.61 %
21.
***Tauscan 1.5 build 0920 (T) ***
175
***
12.80 %
22.
***AVG 6.0.255 (V) ***
118
***
8.63 %
23.
***ANTS 2.0 Release 1 (T) ***
93
***
6.80 %
24.
***Avast 3.0.341.0 (V) ***
84
***
6.14 %
25.
***eSafe Desktop 3.0 (V) ***
79
***
5.78 %
26.
***Ikarus Virus Utilities 5.01 (V) ***
72
***
5.27 %
27.
***Anti-Trojan 5.5 build 335 (T) ***
64
***
4.68 %
28.
***TrojanHunter 1.0 build 298 (T) ***
15
***
1.10 %
29.
***Quickheal X-Gen 6.0 (V) ***
15
***
1.10 %

[bigc73542]

A few more results.


Chart #2. 1,252 Backdoors considered to be infrequently seen.
Web site source:
http://www.trojaner-info.de/test_07_2001_kaumback.shtml
* ***
Program
***
# Detected
***
Percent
1.
***AVK 10.0.1.0 (V) ***
1252
***
100.00 %
1.
***Kaspersky Anti-Virus 3.5.133.0 (V) ***
1252
***
100.00 %
2.
***McAfee VirusScan 5.12 (V) ***
1241
***
99.12 %
3.
***F-Secure 5.21 (V) ***
1190
***
95.05 %
4.
***RAV AntiVirus 8.2.1.12 (V) ***
1182
***
94.41 %
5.
***Norman Virus Control 5.00.24 (V) ***
1118
***
89.30 %
6.
***Panda AntiVirus 6.0 Platinum (6.22.00) (V) ***
1101
***
87.94 %
7.
***F-Prot 3.09a (V) ***
1011
***
80.75 %
7.
***FP-Win 3.09-pre (V) ***
1011
***
80.75 %
8.
***Command 4.61 (V) ***
1010
***
80.67 %
9.
***DrWeb 4.24b (V) ***
963
***
76.92 %
10.
***PC-cillin 7.51 (V) ***
879
***
70.21 %
11.
***InoculateIT 6.0 Advanced Edition 6.0.85 (V) ***
842
***
67.25 %
12.
***AVG 6.0.255 (V) ***
826
***
65.97 %
13.
***The Cleaner 3.2 build 3213 (T) ***
815
***
65.10 %
14.
***NOD32 Anti-Virus 1.86 (V) ***
781
***
62.38 %
15.
***Tauscan 1.5 build 0920 (T) ***
779
***
62.22 %
16.
***PC Door Guard (T) ***
687
***
54.87 %
17.
***AntiVir PE 6.07.00.51 (V) ***
646
***
51.60 %
18.
***Norton AntiVirus 2001 (7.00.51F) (V) ***
640
***
51.12 %
19.
***AntiVir Pro 6.07.00.00 (V) ***
593
***
47.36 %
20.
***Sophos Anti-Virus 3.45 (V) ***
466
***
37.22 %
21.
***Anti-Trojan 5.5 build 335 (T) ***
438
***
34.98 %
22.
***AVX 5.9.3 (V) ***
391
***
31.23 %
23.
***ANTS 2.0 Release 1 (T) ***
275
***
21.96 %
24.
***TrojanHunter 1.0 build 298 (T) ***
129
***
10.30 %
25.
***Ikarus Virus Utilities 5.01 (V) ***
115
***
9.19 %
26.
***eSafe Desktop 3.0 (V) ***
71
***
5.67 %
27.
***Avast 3.0.341.0 (V) ***
62
***
4.95 %
28.
***Quickheal X-Gen 6.0 (V) ***
50
***
3.99 %

[dos]

Those tests are *extremely* out dated. I wouldn't base an opinion on them anymore personally, it tells you nothing about how modern AV's deal with modern trojans.

[bigc73542]

I stated that they were older tests. I saw a trojan test at the rokop site that was actually in english that covered some of the av's listed here. If I can find it again I will post it here.It shows that they have improved but the order of scoring has not changed that much.

[bigc73542]

you can look here for westcoast checkmark's up to date list of there check marked av's they tested for trojan detection.


http://www.westcoast.com/checkmark/products_troj.html


you might want to check this link. it covers AVG antivirus in an october 2003 test for trojan detection.
http://www.hackfix.org/miscfix/icons-av-A_M.shtml