largest database

Antivir now has 200054 in virus database.
Is this the largest?.It seems antivir and bit defender have had massive updates recently.
This is antivir free,so with the paid version having spyware detection,does it have a different database to cover spyware.

 

It's not the number that matters. You can have huge database just because you have lousy unpacker and you need hundred signatures for same file.
Also companies count malware differently...

 

High numbers sell better (Sorry for being sarcastic)

 

So antivir has large database because it has useless unpacker

 

Well their unpacker isn't the best under the sun,but yeah that can be one of the resons. Another can be the way how they count malware (1 signature for 1 family,1 signature for 1 sample,5 signatures for 1 exotic re-packed sample... etc)

 

Here's an example Avast's database is only 39894 (as of today), but it has equal if not better detection than Antivir. Those numbers are meaningless... As stated already they are a pure marketing tactic.

 

Av comparatives test should be interesting then.Both antivir and bit defender have added 100,000 extra since last test.

 

I see no relation between the doubled virus records and the detection rates. I also still ask myself why the numbers increased that much. Maybe really only a marketing thing, who knows....

 

Maybe then ,if there is no relation between the two,it would be interesting to ask the companies why they are spending the time and effort doing this ,when the time could be spent in other ways

 

kaspersky has a huge database does that mean there unpaker is crap??

coz kaspersky has the best detection compared to all other antivirus

 

Each scanner has a different total of "Scanned Objects" also.
I tested this in the past and the differences are very big.
I don't think that's important as long the scanner does its job.

You can easily fool a counter in a program or show a different result on the screen. If that would the case of course.
Let us assume that all these numbers are correct.
Different programmer = different counting.

 

Nope, Kaspersky has a good static unpacker, backed up with a large signiture database

 

Are you saying that the added 100,000 by these two AV's isn't going to make much difference in the next Av Comparatives test ?

 

About Kaspersky...
We all know how good is KAV's detection rate so 150.000+ of real signatures wouldn't surprise me at all. But generic signatures and heuristics cannot be count and they can detect as much as 50.000+ virtually different samples if you want...