fastest response

What company is the fastest one in adding definitions?

Lets say that you discovered not detected piece of malware, after submision how long did you wait for detection?

 

kaspersky lab

 

Kaspersky Lab

 

this is the order for me: Dr.Web, Kaspersky and AntiVir...all adding them in 48H and sending you an answer with the result of sample analyse in 24H. Hope NOD32 will have this response some day....

 

Panda is fast too lol, at least when I used their products

 

U're right Brian...and even Sophos surprised me with a 12H reply.

 

My last experience? I have submitted two files to ESET and they added detection in 4 hours!! I was really surprised

 

well sometimes eset add detection very fast

 

Here is a list from 2005 on response by Andreas Marx

 

Seems to me the safest way is to have an antivirus that has good heuristics and a fast response.That way, if heuristics dont catch it it isnt long before it is covered.

 

Heuristics doesn't always work - some malware writers are discovering ways to avoid detection heuristically:

http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=186949288

 

From my personal experience, I think Fortinet is also good at response time.

We have FortiGate antivirus firewall at our corporate network perimeter, FortiGate can effectively catch most of malware (I'd say 99%+) that try to get through our network and then caught by eTrust Antivirus at clients/servers. As far as I've seen, we've always received virus signatures in time so FortiGate can stop all fast-spreading malware (e.g. mass-mailing worms) by its signatures without any problems, if not, we still have other layer defence.

 

TAP, you posted an add !!!

I have never heard af an antivirus company what you told.
I checked google, sure was some with a "fancy" page.

But in this discussion, you posted a newcomer add?

I use Avast, but we all know kaspersky has fastest reply, maybe

EDIT:
and checking a language tab in that site it was a chinese site.
Knowing from where you come from, it was really an advertisement?

Lost your reputaion on me TAP.
Maybe in a few years that company is on top, but for now, I feel bad about your reply

 

@ Jarmo P, I'm sorry.

What I said is my personal experience with FortiGate (luckily FortiGate does a good job for me), if it is considered as some kind of adds, moderators can delete my post with no problems.

I've used Fortinet FortiGate antivirus firewall (hardware), CA eTrust Antivirus and a few other security products at work, and use avast! Home Edition on my personal laptop/desktop and my home network.

I think it's not so strange that you haven't heard about Fortinet, because Fortinet's products (it's a network-based antivirus) mainly focus on corporate network protections, not for home users.

http://www.fortinet.com/
http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/

 

I don't see Taps post as an add. It was a personal observation as to how well he believes his companys security program seems to work.

bigc

 

I think symantec also do a quick response on new virus

 

Take a look at the chart in post #9

 

I was thinking more on how long you usually wait for antivirus company to detect a sample after you submit it to them.

 

Marx has been forbidden to test NOD32 - I'll rest my case....

 

I'm almost 100% sure that NOD32 detected all those threats proactively without needing to update

 

From my experience , by far , Kaspersky.
I sent them infected sample , they confirm it in 3 (three) minutes and add signature in the next update (about 40 minutes).
This is the fastest response I ever seen.

 

BTW I sent the same sample to eset and they still don't detect it after 26 hours now!
It's about Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob.pl , ITW , agressive ,and hard to clean from an infected system.

 

Hello,
please PM me the email address you sent the sample from. TD Zlob is of the highest priority these days so I wonder if we actually received it. Now it's been confirmed no such sample has been received at sample[at]eset.com nor samples[at]eset.com. When re-sending it, use the address samples[at]eset.com.

 

It has been detected by Nod32 on my system more than a week ago, but it wasn't dealt with properly. It should be moved to Quarantine, but it didn't. All what happened was a report and that's it. I posted about this problem and the answer from Marcos was: emptying the recycle bin should do the trick.

See my post on may 10th in Nod forum called: Trojan Downloader