Any links to "Independent" AV comparisons?

Not the company sponsored or clearly biased comparisons that I see out there. By independent, I mean that they have no interest at all in who wins or to test only the areas a certain AV will do well in. Totally unbiased tests are rare to find and the AV areana is no exception.

 

http://www.av-comparatives.org/ is well known around here and not biased to any product.

 

Virus Bulletin and Checkmark

http://www.virusbtn.com
http://www.check-mark.com

 

more trustworthy for me;
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm

 

more trustworthy for me;
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm


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The last test on this website was July 2004

 

trustworthy? it's 10 months old.

 

Am I reading that right, that they used AV versions as of Febuary 2003?

"VTC test "2004-07" was started in June 2003, with tesbeds frozen as known
on December 31, 2003 and products submitted in February 2003"

 

how about this? he used 91202 virus samples

http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69

 

Those tests are untrustworthy. Read here:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=77033

 

Is this so "independent"? Isn't it owned by Sophos?¨

Try going here: http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox and do a SmartWhois look-up on "www.virusbtn.com".

 

Alright. You enlightened me. Thanks

I always suspected that Sophos had something to do with VB....but I only thought that maybe Sophos was sponsoring VB.

Thanks again

 

But then again every company has to be owned by someone.

 

VirusBulletin is 'independent'; I do not see that Sophos gets publicity or results in favour of Sophos in VirusBulletin.
Everyone has its own opinion .
Just because they are in the same building and share some infrastructures, it does not mean that they are not independent.

 

Now I'm confused - but I'll take IBK's word for it because he's an expert