AV-comparatives proactive test predictions

A worrying trend I must say

 

Interesting indeed.I wonder if drweb will be the one with more FPs. Hard to beat as it is but never say never.

 

i stand by my earlier prediction, advanced but lowered to standard for FP's.

even more expected as the .origin is tested this time around and its fairly new.

but im sure it wont be the worst detection out there

lets feed the troll (once again...)

 

What I said was re:

"Originally Posted by IBK
what is maybe interesting is that many products have more FP's by signature."

If you have nothing else but "let's feed the troll" or similar asinine comments you should take them somewhere else.

 

That' a surprise than. I would have expected otherwise

 

what do you expecr?

 

I would say you can bank on that one.

 

I expected Symantec, Kaspersky and Drweb to do surprisingly well.

 

What No Dr. Web.....

 

I think Kaspersky, Nod32 , Bitdefender & Avira would do very well in that test.

 

Judging from the last few tests, I think comparing % of detection with absolute numbers (false positives) doesn't make much sense. Aswell as not taking into consideration the relation of detection ratio and number of false positives. Or settings the boundaries with no recognizeable mathematically system. But that is just my personal opinion. Statistics are something wonderful...

 

Oh crystal ball...., avk,avira,bitdefender,kaspersky,nod32,trustport ...

 

I predict Avira will get knocked down to Standard because of fp's but will score high. I wouldn't be too surprised if Avira gets the most signature fp's.

 

Look how fast the days go by Tomorrow perhaps "the big day"??

 

Saturday,

i predict many FP's from everyone.

 

yeah im waiting to see this one also..

 

i think nod will do very well, their proactive detection is what makes up their detection.

it will score high, with low FP's, probably Advanced+

i think it will be the 'only winner' from this test.

 

Looks like you are right, about the date, there's a topic "Retrospective Test of November 2007" (av comparatives forum)

 

i think in the past, he has released it a few days early, so you never know.

 

Results summary is out

Nod32 and Kaspersky get Advanced+

 

http://www.av-comparatives.org

 

Congratulations to Kaspersky for such a significant improvement and NOD for retaining its advanced+ level for retrospective tests for so long.

Good to see most AVs have got the same (or higher) level since its last retrospective test... awaiting for statistics now

Edit 1: actually, v7 did get Advanced level in the last retrospective test

Edit 2:... so rude, how can i forget; a BIG thank you as always to AV-Comparatives team and IBK for you hard work and effort

 

I still wish this test would exclude signature detections to show how good the heuristics really are

 

AVG getting "Advanced" puts this huge smile on my face.....Grisoft seems to be making huge strides in getting their heuristics up to the mark; and their signature detection is not so bad either, making AVG Anti-Malware effectively the most cost effective product on the market today

I think a lot of products have been penalized for FPs; I would like to see the details....but lets just wait

 

but this way it also shows how good the signatures are... the signatures which can detect many variants. At the end of the day, all AVs have heuristics+signatures to try and combat 0-day malware... at least this way it shows the effectiveness of the combination of them both (rather than just the heuristics, because no AV only uses heuristics).
After all, retrospective test is to show detection of 0-day malware and in the real-world, users will have their AVs with heuristics and signature detection enabled