Virus Bulletin Windows 7 Professional - August 2012

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/latest_comparative/index

VB100 RAP Quadrant Feb - Aug 2012:

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First impressions:

1) I am very pleasantly surprised with how well Lavasoft did.
2) Bitdefender and it's clones still doing well.
3) AVG - slipped a bit

 

MSE, AhnLab, PC Tools, McAfee - these products just need to step up the update frequency and work on the heuristics a little. Pushing one or two updates a day vs. hourly makes quite a bit of difference in RAP tests......

 

Let's see how EAM performs in the next test when they get their hands on EAM v7.0

 

Why is Huari at a top spot. Is that not the Korean AV ViRobot that everyone says is bad but now seems to be top spot for no reason.

*Edit* ~ Also does anyone know what engines G-Data use now?

 

Avast and BitDefender.

Ziaul

 

if you read full report you will know the reason
here is one of the reason: ViRobot uses BD and its own engine (S3)
G-Data 2013 still uses avast! (B) and BD (A)

 

Not many changes at the top I would say

 

Small comment on VB100... we are now finally participating, with Panda Cloud Antivirus. Happy to say we achieved VB100% certification.
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/test?recent=1

 

It's nice to have Panda back in the VB testing
And congrats to your first VB100 since the last one in 2001 with Panda AV Platinum

 

I remember those times, back in the days (I mean my days) i didn't know much about the internet so i relied mainly on magazines for information and they always praised Panda AV.

 

check out a 6 vendors comparison here

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/compare?tab=onDemand&id=11&id2=15&id3=80&id4=84&id5=24&id6=23

 

Very poor showing from Emsisoft.

 

I replaced one vendor, Hover over it.

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archi...d4=84&id5=24&id6=23&tab=onDemand&showOlder=12

 

False Positives !

 

And you are talking about what vendor?.....

 

Emsisoft had some troubles with Ikarus with that maybe now they have bitdefender it will be different

 

I see. Yeah possibly..... time will tell I guess

 

Bitdefender has a very low rate of FP's compared to Ikarus and a much bigger and more complete DB IMO. So it will do good.

 

Do you mean Emsisoft will use the BitDefender engine instead of Ikarus?

 

It already does - see EAM v7

 

Thank you, I found the thread.

 

Agreed! These vendors need to move on.

 

New RAP test:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/latest_comparative/index

 

Apologies if this has been asked before - looking at the chart (Apr - Oct 2012) it appears to suggest that Kaspersky Internet Security has worse proactive detection that Kaspersky AntiVirus. Am i reading right?