New French AV-Test

Well, I saw this "test" on this French site:

http://www.soswindows.net/antivirus/top10/
http://www.soswindows.net/antivirus/top10/accueil/

Some interesting tidbits are:

It does not seem to be a very professional test to me. What do you think?

 

I dont think many of us will agree with their rankings, even if I cant read it.

 

Here are the translated versions of both pages:

http://www.google.com/translate?u=h...antivirus/top10/&langpair=fr|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8
http://www.google.com/translate?u=h...s/top10/accueil/&langpair=fr|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8

 

first time I have seen KAV at the bottom of any test.

 

Service Pack 3 ? Thats a new one, because there is no such thing as SP3...

 

Where did you find that?!! Never heard about it. I didn't read everything, but I agree their results are weird..

Here are some more comprehensive tests, with real-time monitor testing, but in French too :

http://www.clubic.com/article-37030-1-comparatif-antivirus-2006.html


nicM

 

This is the most pathetic AV-test I've ever seen, ever.

 

I think their is with 2000.

 

Their "technicians" used the industry standard Rosenthal test so the results are undisputed.................................or i just might have had the laugh of the month year tonight, take your pick.

 

The french at the top of the page is not very good.
Windows XP SP3 does not exists.
The criteria are not only detection rate, but also scan time and GUI friendlyness (subjective).
No information about the number of viruses, and also says clearly that they used an emulator to "create" new or modified viruses to test heuristic (a mix of on-demand and heuristic detection).

Nothing reliable IMO.

Regards,
gkweb.

 

I think probably a good laugh

 

... i agree completely
Cheers,
Hervé

 

Definitly... Doesn't AVK use kaspersky engine... and so avks at the top and kaspersky is at the bottom? That's retarded.

 

That one looks better, to me.
Though I dont understand french

 

Have a look at their screenshots of the different AV Programs, they show that they have used vastly different versions of the AV Programs, for example they used Antivir with a virus database/engine from January 2006, and Panda with virus definitions from May 2006, Avast with defs from April 2006....

So either these are single test runs from different dates and as such not comparable, or they have even less clue about what they're doing than virus.gr.

 

Another one...

 

Muhahaha, just look at the KAV screenshots, they've been using a version from mid 2005!

 

Yeah sure, comparing anti virus programs which are more than 1 year different in update. Have a look at the KAV screenshot, April 2005??!?!?

 

Roflmao

 

another good AV test.

 

Hi,

The most recent and serious AV tests that i've seen in France was published by the "french PC Mag.": 01 Informatique.
This test published in 2005 is based on AV-Test methodology and malwares database.

Just click on "cliquez ici" to get the report as a PDF:
http://www.01net.com/article/281450.html

The results confirm my opinion and my own test with my collection of malwares: Kav and Bitdefender have the most reliable and exhaustive database.

An other test done in 2005 too by "Micro Hebdo", the little brother (same firm/group) of 01 Informatique:
http://www.01net.com/article/295349.html

But this test was only done with about 600 malwares only.

In any case, since the user is running an HIPS or a firewall with HIPS features, the results of AV tests is less important.

Regards

 

OFC RMB

 

ooooo

 

All I know is RMB = Royal Major Bull****

I'm not sure about OFC, but what comes to my head is something that is not so polite

 

OFC means Of Course the rest u got correct