antivirus signatures

I am not sure if this si a valid post. How about you post the amount of signatures your antivirus has and then post again when av-comparatives does their february testing. We can see judge how many signatures your antivirus added and guess how well it wil do in the on demand test and the retrospective test.

 

Dr.Web v4.33.2 2006-12-19 (04:33) 162428, 3.11MB

 

signature count is pretty much irrelevant, since different vendors count signatures in a different way.

 

Don't forget the heuristics.

 

e.g. symantec keeps the number of signatures as low as they can, by adding/creating/optimizing generic signatures. Thats why they have such a low number of signatures claimed but anyway high detection rates. So, no, it is not possible to conclude how the AVs will score based on looking/analyzing the number of signatures they have or added.
But you can anyway guess just for fun. I would for example guess this (it is only a guess, I did not test them recently and some I did never tested at all so far - it is only guessing, which means I could be totally wrong in my guess): AVK, AVIRA, TrustPort, eScan, F-Secure, KAV, Bitdefender, NOD32, Norman, Avast, Fortinet, F-Prot, McAfee, AVG, Dr.Web, Ikarus, Microsoft, VBA32.

 

162486 - 12:34
162494 - 12:36
162496 - 13:38
162506 - 14:27
162517 - 14:48
162520 - 15:09

updates are released quite frequently here with dr.web, thats for sure, but... role on version 5.

im sure you see the point anyway, also .. dr.web's schedule for updates is default every 9 minutes.

 

microsoft has an antivirus?

 

microsoft onecare.
http://www.windowsonecare.com/
lodore

 

For the upcoming february on demand test. ill guess the results including DOS viruses/malware.

Avira Antivir, GData AntiVirusKit (heard they recently switched engines), F-Secure, Kaspersky, NOD32, TrustPort, Norton, BitDefender, Norman Virus Control, Avast, McAfee VirusScan, F-Prot, AVG, Dr.Web, Microsoft OneCare.


Will any others be tested in February? I know VBA32 wil be done separately

 

http://www.windowsonecare.com/
oops replied twice.
lodore

 

new signatures i recieved, found an FP with my new dell laptop,

sent to dr.web, fixed in exactly 16 mins. WOWWWWWWW
everyday, they impress me... whether its not the top rated for detection, service is top-notch.

 

Ya their service is excellent

 

Exactly, pure number of the samples says nothing about the product and its detection abilities.

Here is my classic a contrario agruing:

Imagine we have have malware family with 1000 members. You can have product A detecting this family with one generic signature which will catch also some modification and product B having 999 signatures for every single piece but one.

As for samples B beats A 999:1, but in detection A beats B by detecting 1 piece of malware more.