AVComparatives Nov 2005 overview.

Its up on the site! Check out http://www.av-comparatives.org

Hmm... Nod32 and Bitdefender are the only 2 to get advanced+
Thats interesting!

 

Most likely due to heuristics.

 

Looks like Avast is still at standard. I was hoping to see it jump up a notch but I was really surprised at Symantec dropping to standard. I wonder whats up with that?

 

have the result done yet ? cause i cant find it ?

 

AtomicEd I wouldn't worry about symantec getting a standard, you have to take all of these test's with a grain of salt anyway

 

That's the retrospective test. Symantec excels in the on demand.

 

I don't understand the differences in the retrospective test, and an on-demand test. Could someone give me a few sentences or a paragraph to explain it.
I did notice that in the past NOD creamed all others in the retrospective test.
How does that fit in the real world?

Jerry

 

There's plenty of info on the site regarding the tests. Not too hard to find by using the search button and surfing av-comparatives, there are two links near the bottom of the home page that explain the methodology.

In a nutshell (to get the gist) On-Demand test has up-to-date signatures with respect to the sample... in the Retro, older signatures used on a recent sample to test the app's ability to find baddies with older signatures.

Real world... any new outbreak that doesn't have signatures, apps that score well in retro have a better chance of stopping the baddie than those that don't.

 

Thanks, I know your right about this. Actually for taking the tests with a grain of salt is why I originally went with Avast since it picked up some trojans on the same web site during my personal trial that Nod had completely missed. I guess it just surprised me to see it at first. I am pretty sure I will be going with NIS 2006 in January when my subscription runs out unless KIS 2006 is out and looks good before then.

 

KIS 2006 will look good, that's a given. But Norton 2006 is good now.

 

I think we can't expect any good heuristics test results from avast!, because of (as far as I know) avast! has no traditional heuristics in its on-demand scaner at all so we can't expect any good results from this kind of test from avast!.

I think standard level is good enough for an AV that has no heuristics in its on-demand scanner such as avast!, however, it seems to be better than some AV that have heuristics such as AVG.

However, avast! has generic detection in its on-access/on-demand scanner and featured so-called heuristics module in its e-mail scanner that can be helpful in some real-world outbreak but cannot be tested in av-comparatives.

 

For November it says "coming soon" when I go to the site. Am I looking in the wrong place?

 

There is a llink below that one that says overview. Click on that one. It's just above the add for Centrino Hardware control.

 

Kaspersky went down its performance on the heuristics...

The rest seems quite normal, and BitDefender seems to are making a great job on the overall protection...

 

The overviews are released some days before in order to prepare peoples mentally about the incoming results . The official release date for the reports and results is the 1st december (that's why it says 'coming soon').

 

I think that AV Compartives don't needs to be looked at with salt closeby...

 

very true. i prefer a single malt whiskey. and i always have my nurse on standby.

 

So HIVE does work after all

Now I see BitDefender vs. NOD32 in the future - red apples to green apples (Yum both taste nice)