Question about AVG6.0 free..

How good is AVG at finding Trojan horses? (If it can at all) As most virus scanners include atleast a few Trojan horses..

 

So how does BitDefender compare to AVG?

 

Hmm, I dont know, although, I am downloading Bit Defender free right now, I will download the Demo Trojan, and test it..

 

i have AVG 7 pro licensed... umm i would say its resident shield is very good and also updates are very well made very often... i hav two AVs NAV and AVG... both run at background with their residents and they are doing great job... ya they need to be updated

 

http://www.claymania.com/tests-trojan.html



this is an older test but it might give you an idea how they rate


The main web site is: http://www.av-test.org

Chart #1. 1,367 Trojans considered to be infrequently seen.
Web site source:
http://trojaner-info.de/test_07_2001_kaumtrojan.shtml
*    
Program
   
# Detected
   
Percent
1.
   AVK 10.0.1.0 (V)    
1366
   
99.93 %
2.
   Kaspersky Anti-Virus 3.5.133.0 (V)    
1364
   
99.78 %
3.
   McAfee VirusScan 5.12 (V)    
1339
   
97.95 %
4.
   Panda AntiVirus 6.0 Platinum (6.22.00) (V)    
1241
   
90.78 %
5.
   RAV AntiVirus 8.2.1.12 (V)    
1164
   
85.15 %
6.
   F-Secure 5.21 (V)    
1059
   
77.47 %
7.
   F-Prot 3.09a (V)    
955
   
69.86 %
8.
   Command 4.61 (V)    
954
   
69.79 %
8.
   FP-Win 3.09 (V)    
954
   
69.79 %
9.
   Norman Virus Control 5.00.24 (V)    
931
   
68.11 %
10.
   InoculateIT 6.0 Advanced Edition 6.0.85 (V)    
866
   
63.35 %
11.
   PC-cillin 7.51 (V)    
785
   
57.43 %
12.
   Sophos Anti-Virus 3.45 (V)    
662
   
48.43 %
13.
   DrWeb 4.24b (V)    
651
   
47.62 %
14.
   AntiVir PE 6.07.00.51 (V)    
648
   
47.40 %
15.
   AntiVir Pro 6.07.00.00 (V)    
632
   
46.23 %
16.
   AVX 5.9.3 (V)    
579
   
42.36 %
17.
   Norton AntiVirus 2001 (7.00.51F) (V)    
441
   
32.26 %
18.
   NOD32 Anti-Virus 1.86 (V)    
351
   
25.68 %
19.
   PC Door Guard (T)    
192
   
14.05 %
20.
   The Cleaner 3.2 build 3213 (T)    
186
   
13.61 %
21.
   Tauscan 1.5 build 0920 (T)    
175
   
12.80 %
22.
   AVG 6.0.255 (V)    
118
   
8.63 %
23.
   ANTS 2.0 Release 1 (T)    
93
   
6.80 %
24.
   Avast 3.0.341.0 (V)    
84
   
6.14 %
25.
   eSafe Desktop 3.0 (V)    
79
   
5.78 %
26.
   Ikarus Virus Utilities 5.01 (V)    
72
   
5.27 %
27.
   Anti-Trojan 5.5 build 335 (T)    
64
   
4.68 %
28.
   TrojanHunter 1.0 build 298 (T)    
15
   
1.10 %
29.
   Quickheal X-Gen 6.0 (V)    
15
   
1.10 %

 

A few more results.


Chart #2. 1,252 Backdoors considered to be infrequently seen.
Web site source:
http://www.trojaner-info.de/test_07_2001_kaumback.shtml
*    
Program
   
# Detected
   
Percent
1.
   AVK 10.0.1.0 (V)    
1252
   
100.00 %
1.
   Kaspersky Anti-Virus 3.5.133.0 (V)    
1252
   
100.00 %
2.
   McAfee VirusScan 5.12 (V)    
1241
   
99.12 %
3.
   F-Secure 5.21 (V)    
1190
   
95.05 %
4.
   RAV AntiVirus 8.2.1.12 (V)    
1182
   
94.41 %
5.
   Norman Virus Control 5.00.24 (V)    
1118
   
89.30 %
6.
   Panda AntiVirus 6.0 Platinum (6.22.00) (V)    
1101
   
87.94 %
7.
   F-Prot 3.09a (V)    
1011
   
80.75 %
7.
   FP-Win 3.09-pre (V)    
1011
   
80.75 %
8.
   Command 4.61 (V)    
1010
   
80.67 %
9.
   DrWeb 4.24b (V)    
963
   
76.92 %
10.
   PC-cillin 7.51 (V)    
879
   
70.21 %
11.
   InoculateIT 6.0 Advanced Edition 6.0.85 (V)    
842
   
67.25 %
12.
   AVG 6.0.255 (V)    
826
   
65.97 %
13.
   The Cleaner 3.2 build 3213 (T)    
815
   
65.10 %
14.
   NOD32 Anti-Virus 1.86 (V)    
781
   
62.38 %
15.
   Tauscan 1.5 build 0920 (T)    
779
   
62.22 %
16.
   PC Door Guard (T)    
687
   
54.87 %
17.
   AntiVir PE 6.07.00.51 (V)    
646
   
51.60 %
18.
   Norton AntiVirus 2001 (7.00.51F) (V)    
640
   
51.12 %
19.
   AntiVir Pro 6.07.00.00 (V)    
593
   
47.36 %
20.
   Sophos Anti-Virus 3.45 (V)    
466
   
37.22 %
21.
   Anti-Trojan 5.5 build 335 (T)    
438
   
34.98 %
22.
   AVX 5.9.3 (V)    
391
   
31.23 %
23.
   ANTS 2.0 Release 1 (T)    
275
   
21.96 %
24.
   TrojanHunter 1.0 build 298 (T)    
129
   
10.30 %
25.
   Ikarus Virus Utilities 5.01 (V)    
115
   
9.19 %
26.
   eSafe Desktop 3.0 (V)    
71
   
5.67 %
27.
   Avast 3.0.341.0 (V)    
62
   
4.95 %
28.
   Quickheal X-Gen 6.0 (V)    
50
   
3.99 %

 

Those tests are *extremely* out dated. I wouldn't base an opinion on them anymore personally, it tells you nothing about how modern AV's deal with modern trojans.

 

I stated that they were older tests. I saw a trojan test at the rokop site that was actually in english that covered some of the av's listed here. If I can find it again I will post it here.It shows that they have improved but the order of scoring has not changed that much.

 

you can look here for westcoast checkmark's up to date list of there check marked av's they tested for trojan detection.


http://www.westcoast.com/checkmark/products_troj.html


you might want to check this link. it covers AVG antivirus in an october 2003 test for trojan detection.
http://www.hackfix.org/miscfix/icons-av-A_M.shtml