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Hehe i know which is Avira, F-Prot and i have pretty good idea which is avast!. But i won't tell it to anyone. Except for a decent fee

 

but you must have known that by making the AV companies anonymous that people are going to guess and presume, it's only natural.

 

depends from the source, who is 'guessing' and sometimes also the reason.

guesses are senseless, as they are anyway wrong and get not confirmed by me. should the guessing go to far, next time i will need to censor some publications fully to protect vendors, myself and indirectly also users.

 

Split a number of posts out of this thread concerning Wilders Security Forums special member titles to a thread of their own and into a more appropriate forum.

Bubba

Determining expert titles at Wilders

 

av-comparatives is a great site

In the on-demand comparatives, each time a test is done is the malware used completely unique? i.e. will any of the tens of thousands of malware samples used in February's test be used again in this August's test, or is it a completely new set of malware?

Thanks
Suggers

 

As far as i know IBK uses same base for each test + new stuff that emerges between each tests. So there is always a flow of fresh malware against which antiviruses are tested.
Not sure about proactive test though since i'm not sure if he uses all wildlist malware or just the actual one thats interesting at the moment.
Haven't checked his FAQ for such details. Maybe their already written there...

 

for retrospective test always only new malware.

 

It really sucks there are 31 days in August.

 

Time flies. Be Patient!!

 

When bills are due on the 1st, then 31 day months are welcome.

I admit I wish I could see the results today, but we'll just wait patiently??

Jerry

 

don't we usually get a tease of being allowed to see the overview of the results a day or so before the full results are published? where's our tease?!

 

Well its the 1st here lol....... this end of the globe tap tap awaits, oh well of to bed then.perhaps like xmas day ill wake up in the morning and santa's been lol. MD

 

i am a bit behind the usual schedule. but i think within tomorrow (1st) everything will be finished and online. I do not think that I will have it finished already in some hours. sorry for not giving you the overviews already in order to prepare you to the results; most peoples will be shocked due unexpected results , be patient and make some yoga in the meantime

 

"most peoples will be shocked due unexpected results"

NO, NO, NO AVG and Clam are not at the top ahead of KAV and NOD!

Jerry

 

So avast! will be Advanced+ after all hehe

 

There can be only one thing: Comodo made 1st place!

 

nop, ibk dl a corup avira installer and so results are poor

 

Would be wonderful news (Advanced rating is very realistic though).

 

Hmm...

I'll not "guess" anything yet, but maybe I know whats up....

 

Indeed is. And if they keep up the pace of signatures adding as of lately they may even score Advanced+ on next On-Demand test! Just check the VPS History page. They're really working hard lately.

 

@RejZoR
Yes I know, keeping an eye on that page. It's just like Vlk promised us in January (at the support forums).

 

IBK Rocks.

What a value to the AV community he is.

 

i cant wait for the results i hope antivir keeps its advanced plus and has a bit better detection. enough thouits great anyway

 

Like everyone else I look forward to each IBK test. It is the one site/org that I have the highest confidence in. I believe he is objective and has the expertise to get it right, or as near as anyone I know of.

I think I have read that IBK is currently a student. Wonder what he will do when he graduates. I do hope he can continue such tests. I know such extensive tests take time and money. Many of us would get into a financial bind if we did such things over the long term. I would not have either the resources or the knowledge.

Keep up the most EXCELLENT work IBK.

Regards,
Jerry

 

i think you mean maybe user community, as the results are mainly for helping users and on a second place the av vendors/community.