VB100 RAP Test Feb-Aug 2010

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

Interesting, Sunbelt achieve a higher detection rate this month

 

Well done ESET

 

Kudos to Avast.

 

Funny how CA consumer did about 15% better than CA business ?

Never heard of these

Coranti

Defenx

Bkis

Keniu

Prevention

Nifty

SGA

Coranti looking Very good as are a few of the others above.

 

Anyone ever heard of, or even used, Keniu? Kaspersky + Cloud according to their site.

BTW congratulations to them for, "100% detection rate, 100% non-manslaughter honor superior achievement." (English translation of Chinese text often distorts meaning).

 

Yes this Coranti caught my eye also, might give it a spin in the vm. Has anyone else tried it yet?

 

Poor Kingsoft all alone at the bottom

Anyway Sunbelt did do a nice job.

 

Now i know why Coranti did so well

 

Coranti is a multicore Antivirus, it has these engines.
* BitDefender
* F-Prot
* Norman
* Lavasoft

as you can imagine is pretty heavy ....

 

Always good to see all the free products beating various popular paid products.

 

Nice to see Sunbelt the highest on the Proactive Detection!

TH

 

Norton low 30%s for proactive detection? I don't believe that at all.

 

Ikarus!!! I would love to trial this AV as a stand-alone. Does anyone know an English-language site with trials available?

(AFAIK, Ikarus is the AV component of EAM, right?)

 

Correct! Also http://www.ikarus.at/en/private/downloads/

TH

 

I was pretty excited to see your idea, Ikarus might be the light quick AV to replace Avast (looking at VB100 and Raymond speed tests, the top candidate is ESET NOD32). I've just loaded the Ikarus trial, and run the first scan, so far it's fitting in fine. There are two issues I see right away though: 1. At Raymond the file input output time is huge for Ikarus, 3,920 secs compared to 41 for Avast and EAM (how can that be if Ikarus is part of EAM?) 2. The price is more than $50. You can get EAM with the Ikarus and their own engine for at least $10 less than that.

 

Looks like EAM dropped a bit

And G-Data back to "almost" TOP!

 

Panda and Dr.Web were not tested

Also Sophos did a good job.

 

Norton always sucks at this kind of heuristics tests. Just look at the AV-C praoctive, it also scores about 35% percent there.

But once they enter a dynamic tests the Insight and SONAR modules get involved and then they get a great score.

Summary:
Norton signatures: really good
Norton heuristics: sucks
Norton usability and interface etc: great
Norton next-gen modules (behavior/reputation based [SONAR, Insight etc.]): great
Norton overall dynamic product: great

About the results, they really seem to be pretty consistent:
- AVG doing better than Avira and avast! for quite a long time the RAP now
- Ikarus, Sunbelt, CheckPoiont doing great
- all the multiple engine products are in the top: G Data, Emsisoft (however Emsisoft engine hardly adds something to Ikarus I think), Coranti, Trustport

Personally I am very happy with the performance of ESET, they had a not so good year last year. But they seem to be fighting back.

 

Good info's.

 

Shouldn't these modules be part of proactive testing? I always thought proactive tests were supposed to show an AVs ability to stop zero-day malware that it likely doesn't have signatures for yet. Norton is top notch against zero-day malware.

 

I do agree with -- like many others -- this is also why people say on-demand and proactive testing (like this and AV-Comparatives) is outdated, and that real product dynamic testing is the way to go (most AV-Test tests and the AV-Comparatives Dynamic test).
But I also understand why such components are not really included, most of those kind of components don't pick up malicious software, but potentially malicious software, and then pop-up to request user intervention to make the final decision.

 

Bkis: Bach Khoa Internet Security, developer of BkavPro 2010, BkavHome...)
Keniu: developer of Keniu Antivirus (with Kaspersky engine)
Defenx: use Outpost engine

 

@CloneRanger:
Preventon (old version of Virusbuster Engine)
http://www.preventon.com/
Nifty (May be Bitdefender?)
http://www.nifty-it.com.au/computer-services/antivirus-virus-removal/
SGA (Bitdefender too?)
http://www.sgt.co.th/index.php/product/sga-vc

 

@ sg09

Thanks

I live here, and didn't know that

Nifty = Australian but ? AV

SGS = Korean based in Thailand = Viruschaser

 

Excellent point.
To test the full capability would require a tester to make a determination for each alert generated which is impractical.