Best Antivirus Defense, Least System Resources, Auto-Update?

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by digital, Sep 13, 2004.

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  1. Firefighter

    Firefighter Registered Member

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    To everyone from Firefighter!

    Just finished my last scan with some low resource av:s that can update automatically or periodically and some scans with two free scanners than are able to autoupdate. Test bed had 3007 infected archived samples, some quite new, because Command AV just after my scan detected 5 more samples with their newest definitions.

    The biggest surprises in my mind were NOD's trojanlike malware detection and ClamWin's capability to cover viruses.

    I had to scan with eScan Free 4.4.7 too, although it can't update at all just to see how good these other av:s are compared to KAV engined ones.


    FF av-test 10-2004 against 3007 infected archived samples:

    Trojan like malware [1238];
    977 Backdoor & Trojan, 70 Exploit, 68 TrojanDownloader, 88 TrojanDropper and 35 TrojanSpy


    98.8 % - 1223 eScan Free 4.4.7

    85.2 % - 1055 NOD 2.0.11 beta upd. 1.882 with AH

    82.2 % - 1018 DrWeb 4.32a

    81.7 % - 1011 Command AV 4.92.1

    75.0 % -- 928 Avast 4.1 Home & Pro

    43.1 % -- 534 ClamWin 0.35.2


    Viruses [1058];
    42 Other virii, 316 Win32 and 700 Worm


    97.1 % - 1027 eScan Free 4.4.7

    91.8 % -- 971 DrWeb 4.32a

    89.2 % -- 944 Command AV 4.92.1

    87.3 % -- 924 ClamWin 0.35.2

    86.0 % -- 910 Avast 4.1 Home & Pro

    82.4 % -- 872 NOD 2.0.11 beta upd. 1.882 with AH


    Script like malware [526];
    90 BAT, 12 HTML, 36 JS script, 236 Macro, 11 PHP, 10 Script and 131 VBS


    94.1 % - 495 eScan Free 4.4.7

    93.5 % - 492 DrWeb 4.32a

    91.3 % - 480 Command AV 4.92.1

    82.1 % - 432 NOD 2.0.11 beta upd. 1.882 with AH

    79.7 % - 419 Avast 4.1 Home & Pro

    67.5 % - 355 ClamWin 0.35.2


    and finally Riskware [185];
    64 Constructor, 9 Joke, 6 Keylogger, 50 PolymorphicEngine and 56 VirTool


    77.3 % - 143 eScan Free 4.4.7

    51.4 % -- 95 Command AV 4.92.1

    47.0 % -- 87 NOD 2.0.11 beta upd. 1.882 with AH

    41.1 % -- 76 Avast 4.1 Home & Pro

    40.5 % -- 75 DrWeb 4.32a

    39.5 % -- 73 ClamWin 0.35.2


    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
  2. RejZoR

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    Really interesting. avast! holds up pretty well,also ClamWin looks really nice in second category :)
     
  3. minacross

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    to Firefighter
    any feed back about etrust promo and AVG? Both are low resources AVs and have an updater.
     
  4. Firefighter

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    To minacross from Firefighter!

    Just made a test with AVG 7 Free beta. Unfortunately I was unable to get a proper log file. Found totally 2075 infected files but because it was reporting more than one infections in some of these infected samples, I'll bet that it scored only about the same level as ClamWin or even worse.

    Don't have time to made a scan with eTrust v7 promo, because it's so awfull to collect all available upgrade patches separately (I have used 7.0.142 version before, but to collect that up was too big job for me) and I'll remember that there was also some log file difficulties when I have to count each picked archive from the list it offered.

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
  5. minacross

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    thanx for the info FF :)
     
  6. Firefighter

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    To everyone from Firefighter!

    What's going to happen to me? The first time I'm going to like NOD with AH. Better detecting rate against the most common nasties, backdoors & trojans, than Command AV and DrWeb. NOD was in my tests only not so good against worms, those nasties that KAV is naming as I-Worm, IRC-Worm, Worm.P2P, mIRC-Worm, Worm.Win32. Maybe Ewido is capable to patch that? Believe me, I'm still FF!

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
  7. zmd

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    Take Kaspersky 5 -sensational detection and protection and it,s pretty light!Complete joy!
     
  8. sard

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    Never heard it described as pretty light before.

    What we need is Kaspersky's definitions and Kaspersky Lab’s amazing ability to detect new malware, combined with someone else’s light weight scanner and heuristics.
     
  9. Don Pelotas

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    Neither did i ;) :) , but i have to say that Kav 5 feels light (on my computer) compared to 4.5, and a scan "only" takes around 10 minutes versus 30 for 4.5, and whats more important is the fact that i don't notice it in daily use.

    That wouldn't be a bad thing. :)
     
  10. se7engreen

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    If only f-secure was lighter... ;)
     
  11. BrainWarp

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    I don't judge and antivirus as being light compared to how fast or slow it scans.I look at memory that is used from all its processes--that why i use drweb
     
  12. sard

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    I don't care about memory either, just whether it slows down my computer. I'm also Using Dr.Web at the moment though because I hardly notice it's there.
     
  13. iwod

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    To firefighter,

    Why isn't F Prot Included in the test? Even though CAV and F Prot uses the same engine past test has suggest it is still very different.

    To others:

    To me Escan is extremely good for a Back up virus Scanner.
     
  14. karll

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    Hi, I read this thread and DL'ed Escan backup and I have a problem with it, everything I start my computer Escan automatically scans the PC, how can I disable this?
     
  15. Firefighter

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    To iwod from Firefighter!

    F-Prot scored only a bit better than Command AV 4.92 in my former tests against some 2040 nasties, maybe because of faster signature updating. Still they were very close together. Personally, I don't like F-Prot's resident shield, you just can't exclude any folder from scanning, and all my infected archives are in my hard disk, that's the main reason why not F-Prot.

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
  16. karll

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    Firefighter, how do I know that the F-prot shield is working? I really don't trust this F-stop/go thing. I'd rather know what file is being scanned at a time.
     
  17. Socio

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    KAV 5 gets my vote!

    Comparing it to NAV2004 which I used to run I would call KAV light as well I also like the fact that it auto-updates its self every three hours.
     
  18. RejZoR

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    Just throw EICAR test file into F-Prot.

    EICAR Test file download (use *.COM version):
    http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
     
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