is there any new Separated on-demand test for F-Secure ?

is there any new Separated on-demand test for F-Secure ?
http://www.av-comparatives.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=173

 

no. at least not from av-comparatives.

 

please ibk can you give us Separated on-demand test for F-Secure ?
because many people use this AV

 

As such, F-Secure uses KAV engine, so the detection rate will be similar to KAV at the very minimum. F-Secure has two in-house engines too, so I think the result will be slightly better than KAV.

 

Actually the few test's i have seen with twinengined AV's with the Kav engine (including F-Secure) showed them to have slightly less detection ..........weird.

 

In fact, FSE seems to be under KAV...according to Virus.gr
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69

Don't ask why...

 

It has more or less the same detection rate. Does it make any difference if it does detect e.g. 5-10 samples more or less than KAV in a test-set of e.g. 500.000 samples? Probably not
Anyway it is possible that in future also f-secure will be tested...

 

And GDATA's AVK?

 

As somebody from Kav already said here KAV original is the best while ll other packages lack a bit because KAV is not crazy to make them same effective as original....

 

@blackcat: everything could be possible, but i have to discuss with the av companies before i am going to take decisions. and of course i have to look if they want, if i can, if they fulfill various conditions, etc.
we will see...

 

I guess its because F-Secure does not have the hourly updates that KAV enjoys, which allows KAV to have better detection in most tests.

 

I don't think so. In my mind if KAV is better than F-secure in some test, it's better mainly because there are some Adware/Riskware samples within that test as F-secure doesn't have any Extended databases in their av to choose.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

F-Secure does have Ad-Aware database integrated into their AV.....

 

Which is not integrated to the F-secure scanning report. F-secure's Ad-Aware reports by itself.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

I guess that explains it.

 

When you want to know the detecting rate of F-secure as a total, you have to scan all those samples with F-secure first, remove those infected/suspicious (if not FP:s) ones and finally scan those rest with F-secure Ad-Aware. This result is that what we can compare to KAV scanning result with extended database enabled.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

one possible explanation is that AFAIK f-secure hasnt got the latest kav engine

 

Yes, and who knows what they have done with it, in terms of the modefications they have made to it etc.

 

Firefighter

I think you are wrong here, because they add their own signatures in addition to the ones they get from Kaspersky.

 

In some place, you can't see difference between Kav pro 4.5.0.104 and Kav pro 5.0. The engines are different. Then which engine is used by F-secure?
Sincerly,
Cadoul from France

 

Maybe I have to clear up my opinion a bit more. I didn't mean that F-secure has the same detection rate as KAV with extended database. When I trialed ShawSecure (the same as FIS 2005), I had to scan my samples with F-secure Ad-Aware too, to get the best possible scanning results with that ShawSecure, where was that add module within.

Actually I believe that F-secure has even a bit better detection rate among viruses and worms than KAV, because of those 3 engines (or was it now 4 engines?), but KAV may have a bit better detection rate among trojan like nasties, because of a bit better unpacking capabilies than F-secure has and a bit quicker updates together with extended databases too.

PS. Despite of a bit different detection rates of F-secure and KAV, it has only an academical importance, because the second best scanning engines than KAV, concerning detection rates, are far below of those two F-secure/KAV, than there is difference between those two.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

i havent used f-secure since 2004 beta, but i believe it has still kav 4.xx engine.

 

F-secure uses KAV 6.xx engine.



tECHNODROME

 

How you know that? The KAV 6.xx engine is still a while off being finished.

 

I believe it was posted earlier. Maybe F-Secure uses some pre-release version of the KAV 6.x engine.