AV Tests

Agreed. The test can sway both ways very easy, and give little to no valuable input. But hey maybe that's just the way I think. Tho if they were done over time lets say a set amount per day for x amount of days. That might give you some view how they do. As long as you are testing all AV's against the same sample set.

 

With AVs, I look at tests like this, but what I find most convincing is personal experiences over time - experiences where you use the computer normally and remain protected or not.

 

Ok, I was really inspired by this test.

I have done a very very crude attempt. I tried some links from malwaredomainlist. com. I tried Avast, Avira, MSSE and Comdod v4.

I used mainly the links that lead to an executable download. These link were from 21 Feb to this day. Tried 13 samples on Windows 7 32 bit.

Avast detected 12 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 92 %
MS Security Essentials 10 - - - - - - - 76 %
Antivir free 8 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 61%
Smart Screen Filter in IE 10 - - - - - - 76%
Comodo v4 beta 9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 69%

I have guessed the reason why Avast detects more on real time while malware is coming via web.

 

@aigle
I have never seen the IE filter compared before, interesting!
I assume you turned off the filter when doing the other tests.
By any chance did you do a 'combined' test.

 

But if the computer is used normally it is not insignificant to me whether or not it gets infected. An infected system is so whether there is a large number of samples or not, or whether the methodoligy is accepted or not.
A difference between 92% and 76% if I were getting infected would be enough to change to a better AV.

Regards,
Jerry

 

Just tried Panda cloud after many hours. Not an exact test as was in hurry. It detected about 50% approx.

 

IE filter is good I know that. Ofcourse it was turned off/ disbaled for other AVs.

No combined test. Infact no more test as I wasted all my day . Now going to sleep.

 

Did you have In comodo defense+ or the sandbox enable during the test?

 

It was AV test only.

 

I'm glad.

I will be doing some more tests this weekend most likely with different AV's, although I may still include Avast and Kaspersky to see if their record remains intact.

I would like to use more than 15 links as well. We'll see what I can dig up.

 

I didnt mean to imply anything earlier. We all love seeing tests like this. But folks should keep them in their right perspective. Again, thank you.

 

Agreed.
They are kind of fun, though.
Nice test, aigle, I'd never think to test IE on its own.

 

It's really a great fun. I wish to have a lot of time spare and to run more extensive and more formal testing.

Actually Avast performed so good due to its shields. I noticed that many threats detected by its web shield. Only few could reach my hard disk and catched by file shield.

A very interesting thing is its network shield. It blocks malicious web sites and domains. It gives avast a great edge. It might not detect many threats on a web site but by blocking this website and a whole malicious domain, it protects against a lot lot more malware even with out any detection by its file shield. I strongly suspect that it may be reason of good scope by avast.

Another interesting thing i noted that two threats were blocked by its web shield but when i disabled the web shield, and let the samples be downloaded to my hard disk, file shield did not detect them.

I really like avast. It lacks only two things, a good behav blocker and some sort of cloud implementation and it can be a real top class anti virus. I wil post some screen shots later.

 

I had the same success with Avast and the Web Shield. However, I was too afraid to disable it and let the file shield do it's thing. Overall a great addition to anyone's security plan.

Ice

 

If possible, someone should try the combination of MSSE and Immunet together.

I've found at times what one misses, the other detects. And both are light and free. Be interesting to see how both go working at the same time. As trjam said, just a simple test. 0/13 won't change my mind.

 

Here are some.

 

I must say that those pop-ups from Avast are very informative and nicely implemented.

 

I did a little, actually a lot on my own last night, thanks to some fine people here, lol.

I am not going to talk about individual scores but I will have to say that Avast and Prevx really surprised the hell out of me. Others did very well to but yeah, these 2 came out very well.

Oh, one product did get 100 percent of about 50 malware sites that were active and that winner is, ShadowDefender. Stopped them all. Loll

 

aigle, just curious... why you've COMODO as well?

 

Ohh!! dont you support Panda anymore?

 

Avast was installed for testing only. It's a VM infact, a snapshot of VB.

 

Brother I need to make this part of my sig. I use FD-ISR on 3 computers for a total of 30 snapshots. I use and try alot of stuff. Panda is and will be one of my favorites. Just because it isnt being plastered in my sig doesnt mean anything. Ok?

 

I was just kidding men, you can use whatever you want, was just curious.

 

What about KeyScrambler? I thought GW blocked keyloggers as well.

 

Yes GW blocks the keyloggers but KS is so nice that I like to use it for online transactions etc.