AV-Comparatives

Avira
Eset

 

Good to see ya back!

 

who says I ever went anywhere.

 

I think KIS v2009 is doing pretty well as well

 

Another day, another test. Take five minutes to digest, then move on

Congratulations to all of the vendors for some good results. Avira surprised me with their low FP.... last time I tried it every second file on my HD was suspicious

 

Under the section detailing where to send possible false alarms, should it not say that F-Secure also uses the Kaspersky engine as the F-Secure false alarm detections are the same as that of Kaspersky.

 

Eset and Avira, no surprise.

AVG and McAfee, two sleepers.

Symantec, falling down on the job?

Sophos, for professional use only?

 

Gotta get rid of those suspicious files on your HD

 

Then your avatar lies

 

as expected

 

but only 11,000 samples, from a week collection?

obviously, this creates a much bigger percentage difference between some.

 

F-Secure does not use Kaspersky heuristic technology and vice versa. So in this test it's normal that they get different results and false positive on F-Secure might not be present on the kaspersky side(and again, vice-versa)

 

Err, and then maybe I did.

 

F-Secure had the same two false alarms as Kaspersky, which is why I suggested the addendum to the engine paragraph.

Edit: screenshot removed as requested.

 

My Avira AntiVir 8.0 Premium has Never let me down.

 

You must be a fan of Avira AntiVir Premium. I hope you are right after the AV-Comparatives results. Personally I think AVG and Microsoft OneCare will be the best.

 

I agree back in the day when i used 8.0 it was one tough mother. Man how much i miss the 80's!

 

They both got the ADVANCED rating with 32% and 29% respectively, but with few false positives.

 

The next test will have both detections of one week and one month old samples.

 

The converse of that is that the two you mentioned missed 68% and 71% of "new" samples respectively. Not something I would rely upon for proactive/heuristic protection.

 

Well that is over a week, when most AV have signature updates daily. So I think the stats over at shadowserver.org provide better indication of how you will be protected in practice.

 

Avira excels in both tests unlike many of the others. Avira is #1 on a yearly basis with Shadowserver and was top rated in the most recent quarterly AV-Comparatives Retrospect. Tests of course do not necessarily represent what people experience in the real world, but I would rather employ an AV that tests well as opposed to one that doesn't.

http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stats.VirusYearlyStats

 

Just like my expectations, although i'm not using it currently

 

Na just took a short vacation

 

Torn between to lovers here, Avira and Drweb dont know which one to break it off with.may just sneak over Drwebs house again.