Any links to "Independent" AV comparisons?

[flyted]

Not the company sponsored or clearly biased comparisons that I see out there. By independent, I mean that they have no interest at all in who wins or to test only the areas a certain AV will do well in. Totally unbiased tests are rare to find and the AV areana is no exception.

[RejZoR]

http://www.av-comparatives.org/ is well known around here and not biased to any product.

[Firecat]

Virus Bulletin and Checkmark

http://www.virusbtn.com
http://www.check-mark.com

[TeknO]

more trustworthy for me;
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm

[Visitor99]

more trustworthy for me;
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm


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The last test on this website was July 2004

[lynchknot]

-{ Quote: "more trustworthy for me;
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm" }-trustworthy? it's 10 months old. ???

[Stan999]

-{ Quote: "more trustworthy for me;
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm" }-

Am I reading that right, that they used AV versions as of Febuary 2003?

"VTC test "2004-07" was started in June 2003, with tesbeds frozen as known
on December 31, 2003 and products submitted in February 2003"

[sorde]

how about this? he used 91202 virus samples

http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69

[Firecat]

-{ Quote: "how about this? he used 91202 virus samples

http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69" }-
:o:-X

Those tests are untrustworthy. Read here:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=77033

[kjempen]

-{ Quote: "Virus Bulletin ...
http://www.virusbtn.com
..." }-

Is this so "independent"? Isn't it owned by Sophos?¨

Try going here: http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox and do a SmartWhois look-up on "www.virusbtn.com".

[Firecat]

-{ Quote: "Is this so "independent"? Isn't it owned by Sophos?¨

Try going here: http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox and do a SmartWhois look-up on "www.virusbtn.com"." }-
Alright. You enlightened me. Thanks :)

I always suspected that Sophos had something to do with VB....but I only thought that maybe Sophos was sponsoring VB.

Thanks again :)

[bigc73542]

But then again every company has to be owned by someone.

[IBK]

VirusBulletin is 'independent'; I do not see that Sophos gets publicity or results in favour of Sophos in VirusBulletin.
Everyone has its own opinion (http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:CCFwtIQg95sJ:agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/en00x8.htm+%22+the+technical+Virus+magazine+%22Virus+Bulletin%22+is+co-owned+by+Dr.+Jan+Hruska,+who+is+also+co-owner+of+Sophos%22&hl=de%20target=nw) .
Just because they are in the same building and share some infrastructures, it does not mean that they are not independent.

[Firecat]

Now I'm confused - but I'll take IBK's word for it because he's an expert :)