VB Rap Test - June-December

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml


Avira free performed better than Avira pro, surely must be a typo

 

And ESET is the best single engine AV as usual
They never let me down!

 

It did so in the previous RAP test as well

P.S
But so MANY new Names this time!

ZeoBit? Never heard of them before....as well as PC Booster and Clearsight.

 

Wow

Are you sure, you don't think avira free performed better with the latest test

Zeobit only seems to be for the mac - my google skills failed me at first ;/

http://pckeeper.zeobit.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxFdUSd4WwA

 

It appears a majority of products detection rates have gone down.
Ikarus detected 87%. Last test if I remember correctly it was around 95%.
Kingsoft lol.

 

coranti 2010 did well,

 

Thanks for this news...
You see that Avira Free is better than Premium? It's strange...

 

ESET is the record winner of VB100 awards at Virus Bulletin, Not to mention that almost always is in the highest RAP

 

Trustort always at top o.o
I wonder how it performs in real time xD

G-Data as always near the top

 

Virus Bulletin methodology sucks . Guys , when will you understand it ?

 

Homepage of New AVs

Celeritas WinSafeGuard
http://www.celeritassoftware.com/

Clearsight AntiVirus
http://www.clearsightav.com/

ZeoBit PCKeeper
http://pckeeper.zeobit.com/

PC Booster AV Booster
http://www.pcbooster.com/

Optenet Security Suite
http://www.optenet.com/en-us/index.asp

Rising Scored worst in VB100 "2523 wildlist misses"

 

Thanks for the links Sg09.

That PC Booster website really looks like a rouge with flashy graphics and all,
But I know it's not so no panic

And ClearSight seems to offer a Free version for non commercial use but no download links what I can see.

And Optenet has partnerships with Kaspersky, Sophos, and Sourcefire to name a few. But who knows wich engine it really uses.

 

Any word from Avira about the results that seem odd?

 

I read on another forum that what VB refer Avira pro to is a business version, and not the premuim version that we think it means :

http://www.avira.com/en/for-business-avira-antivir-professional#tab2

 

Yeah, that makes sense...for some reason I thought previous RAP tests had Avira free and Premium, not Pro. If that's the case, I wonder why the change?

 

VB decided to make some more cache to give their employees for the Christmas and NY holidays by letting more and more products to be tested - how can they test so many products and so many unknown names . These "products" are most probably used by less than 0.5 percent of the people worldwide - who cares about their results except from the vendors themselves.

 

i agree to you though not completely

anyways , congrats to eset

i am also confuse abt avira free>pro like others

 

if something is unclear you should send an email to VirusBulletin and ask for clarification.

"VB welcomes readers’ feedback on the proposed test methodology. Please direct all comments and enquiries to john.hawes@virusbtn.com."

 

smaller vendors do have to start from somewhere. maybe among them their is the eset or kasperksy of the future. u never know u might end up using one of these products in the near future...

 

Endow me with stock in a company that sells any product with usage by 0.5% of the worldwide population and I will shortly become a multi-multi-billionaire.

 

Yes I am sure ESET's dot is a little higher than the Avira Free dot, Clearly

 

On that graph, X scale = Proactive detection; Y scale = Reactive detection. Therefore "best" would be highest (reactive) AND rightmost (proactive). On that combined basis, Avira free is slightly better than ESET on proactive detection, & ESET is slightly better reactively.

Reactive = how fast the developer REACTS so as to issue sigs for a newly discovered malware

Proactive = The ability of the given antivirus to DETECT a new/unknown malware (for which sigs don't yet exist) by use of heuristics/emulation et alia.

With such narrow differences between ESET & Avira, on both axes, I for one would opt for the app which has better PROACTIVE detection. Namely, given ONLY these 2 choices, I would go for Avira. HOWEVER, the overall difference in test results of these 2 apps doesn't amount to a pool of warm spit.