PC Welt, test of trojan detection rate

Hi guys!

I'm new aboard... Hope, anyone of you can find some usage for my upcoming posts and comments

Getting fired up with my first post here. The following link leads to an up-to-date test of the trojan detection rate of the most known av solution providers. It's in german but the statistic table should be self-instructional.

There you are: http://www.pcwelt.de/news/sicherheit/59058/index.html

Looks like WebWaher and AntiVir made a stable run for the top competitors over a periode of time now...

What are your thoughts?

Greetings, LinusAV

 

google translation:
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Test was done by av-test.org. Results should be valid.



tD

 

Short translation:

Test enviorment:
- 33 AV programs
- 300.000 Trojans from 2006 (no worms, no virus)
- 6 Computer Intels Core Duo 6600 CPU / 2 GB RAM.

Results:
1. Place: Webwasher with 99,97 % detection
2. Place: Antivir
3. Place: G Data AVK 2007

- 50% of tested AV's have a detection rate arround 90%
- Surprize: The chinese Newcomer "Rising" liitle better than Panda and Trend Micro
- Frisk (F-Prot), Sophos o CA (Etrust) nearly a disaster

 

Isnt Webwashers AV and AS based on the Sophos engine.

 

The article says that WebWasher uses the Antivir engine along with an in-house development of Secure Computing... Declares the lead with a gain of 0,018 percent to AntiVir.

 

AntiVir does well again.

Yes Rising results are a surprise,but so are the results for Ewido.

 

Results are a bit strange but mostly make sense. Rising has been adding samples like mad (thanks to our very own pykko ) and hence has got good detection rates this time.

Dr.Web, well, I can see it has improved somewhat. They work hard to add samples, but I have a feeling that they are not having enough analysts.I am quite impressed by the results of AntiVir, NOD32 and BitDefender. Good job from all three.

But the strange thing is that IMO F-Prot should score better than what it did. I'm not saying F-Prot is top-tier, but I am pretty sure detection rates should be better than 77%

 

although on this test, avk 2007 is better than 2006. But I still prefer 2006. Because bitdefender heuristic engine and antispyware module are better than avast. A small 0.06% disadvantage on trojan is nothing.

 

Nope that looks "ok" to me since we all know that version 3 sucks pretty much. And Andreas Marx tested the old version - i've just called him via phone.

 

Thanks for the clarification.

 

Very good results for avast!, Norman and AVG.


tD

 

does anybody know why there is such a big difference between avg and ewido? since both of them belong to grisoft, they should share the samples with each other. Any ideas?

shek

 

Wonder why Trojan Hunter wasnt included.

 

Because they tested AntiVirus aplications and not Trojan Scanner.

 

Since when is Ewido (as standalone product) an Antivirus Scanner?

 

Maybe Magnus didn't like the results................................again?

 

UPS, you are right,didn't saw that Ewido was included (have ridden only the top of the result list). But didn't they say in the test, i think i can read german, that they only tested AV aplications

 

heh...well another very average results for dr web , i should get used to it tho

 

What trojans were tested?
Interesting that somebody could collect 300000 trojans for 1 year

Its 821 trojan daily

or

34 every hour

or

more than 6 every 10 minutes

?





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It has been my (unlearned) opinion that if one has a top tier AV, he does not need an AT.

Now, however, the lines are blurred and what we once considered a dedicated AT has branched out to be an anti-malware application. Some applications, such as a-squared seem to do better than most dedicated AS applications.

Although I have a lifetime license for Ewido, as time goes by I am less and less impressed by its capabilities in any area.

I wish a-squared had been tested, as it is as much an AV as Ewido I think.

Avast did better than I would have expected. I have always considered the trojan detection below par and would want an AT along with Avast. But now I see they have made great strides in that area. I assume the free and the paid would show the same detection.

Jerry

 

If you have kaspersky or antivir you dont need separate antitrojan. but i have noticed that some nod32 know that the trojan detection isnt the best so they use something like ewido or boclean. i probaly could just use kav and a firewall and be protected enough. but i do like prevx1

 

Jerry,

I would think you are right about results being the same for paid and free versions of the programs tested.

It would have been interesting to see the results for A-Squared versus Ewido.

 

an older anti-trojan comparative with ewido vs. a-squared is also on av-comparatives i think. (p.s. sorry for spamming .

 

Thanks IBK,

I'll take a look at that.