Latest AV-comparatives.org test results ( was latest test resultsfor Nod32)

Sorry to be tardy in my response, but I've been sick all week. Thank you so much! I have been able to read all the details about your testing (fascinating) in Acrobat Reader 5.0 and I learned how to mostly fix the Fire Fox problem. I still see a bit of text on top of text but only with the first three AVs which have longer names. I would never have thought to go looking for "obscure" character encoding to fix the problem. I had tried the more obvious encoding choices none of which helped.

Thank for being so responsive.

 

Hi,you may be interested in this.Cheers

http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/overview.html

 

Another 2 weeks and we ll know the final result.My hint is:1.Mcafee 2.kav 3.Symantec(I am surprised )

 

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st place: Kaspersky (1.40)

2nd place: McAfee (2.20)

3rd place: Panda (4.00)

3rd place: RAV (4.00)

4th place: F-Prot (5.60)

5th place: Symantec (6.60)

6th place: Dr.Web (7.80)

6th place: Sophos (7.80)

7th place: BitDefender (8.80)

8th place: NOD32 (9.00)

9th place: Avast (9.80)

10th place: TrendMicro (11.0)

10th place: H+BEDV (11.0)
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I think some editing is in order.

 

Well, he didn't post the table...he linked to the AV-Comparatives website which I'd think is ok.

The only surprise I see in the chart is that Symantec got the Advanced+ rating. Along with scoring in the top 3, I believe this means they achieved a detection rate of ~97% or higher.

Gyuri, do you know that those are the top 3 in order? Or do you mean "guess" instead of "hint"?

 

Yeah Norton detects much stuff On-Demand but missen nearly half of the stuff with On-Access,especially "Possibly dangerous application".
Thats a big minus which no one will know (especially not because this is a On-Demand only test)

 

Sorry for my English,I meant:guess.

 

Thanks for clearing that up Paul and Gyuri. I thought maybe Gyuri had some inside knowledge

RejZoR, yes I've heard that before. But still...even in on demand comparatives I've never seen Norton score at the top of the pack. It usually does ok, but it's always Kaspersky (and its clones) and McAfee that come out on top.

I can't wait to see the official breakdown by category.

 

Yeah but On-Access (Realtime) is first line of defense. Cleaning stuff when it's already installed on your PC can never be perfectly cleaned.
And why make any difference between On-Access and On-Demand?
avast!,AntiVir,AVG,Kaspersky,NOD32...
These AVs don't make any difference between these two modes.
I don't use NAV2005 just because of this and i have a 1 year subscribtion laying in my cabinet closet... (ok now it's not 1 year anymore...).
So in such case you cannot really judge AV only by On-Demand test because On-Access art will let all the "riskware" garbage to your hard drive without even notifying you...

 

I want GData in that test! wahhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

Your wish may come true; http://www.av-comparatives.org/surveys/index.php

 

Maybe I'm on crack or something, but I am not seeing the new online results. That last one listed is for November and I saw that one quite awhile ago. Am I missing something? Thanks

 

- general view -
it needs to change as follows;
1. McAfee
2. F-Secure
3. Kaspersky

 

Different story from www.virus.gr (top tens)

A. 10-25 August 2004

1. Kaspersky Personal Pro version 4.5.0.58 - 99.09%
2. F-Secure 2004 version 4.71.5 - 98.77%
3. Extendia AVK Pro version 11.0.4 - 98.68%
4. AVK version 14.0.7 - 98.50%
5. Kaspersky Personal version 5.0.149 - 97.88%
6. eScan 2003 Virus Control version 2.6.484.8 - 96.75%
7. McAfee version 8.0.41 - 93.59%
8. Norton version 2004 Professional - 93.38%
9. RAV version 8.6.105 - 93.14%
10. F-Prot version 3.15 - 91.85%

B. 2-12 October 2003

1. F-Secure version 5.41 - 99.63%
2. Kaspersky version 4.5.0.49 - 99.35%
3. AVK version 12.0.4 - 98.67%
4. McAfee version 7.03.6000 - 97.24%
5. RAV version 8.6.105 - 94.26%
6. F-Prot version 3.14a - 93.40%
7. Norton version 2004 Professional - 92.35%
8. Titan version 2003 - 90.41%
9. BullGuard version 3.5 - 88.34%
10. BitDefender version 7.1.110 - 88.28%

C. 4-12 May 2003

1. F-Secure version 5.40 - 99.67%
2. Kaspersky version 4.0.5.37 - 99.55%
3. e-Scan Pro version 2.5.181.5 - 97.66%
4. McAfee version 7.00.5000 - 97.14%
5. RAV version 8.6.104 - 95.18%
6. F-Prot version 3.13 - 92.92%
7. PC-Cillin version 2003 10.01.1039 - 90.59%
8. Norton version 2003 Professional - 90.01%
9. Sophos Sweep version 3.69 - 89.37%
10. Dr. Web version 4.29c - 89.23%

D. 5-10 November 2002

1. F-Secure version 5.40.8232 - 99.44%
2. Kaspersky version 4.0.5.35 - 99.38%
3. McAfee version 7.00.5000 - 97.23%
4. RAV version 8.6.104 - 94.52%
5. e-Scan Pro version 2.5.181.5 - 94.50%
6. Command version 4.74.0 - 92.82%
7. F-Prot version 3.12b - 92.47%
8. PC Cillin 2002 version 9.02.1255 - 91.74%
9. Sweep version 3.62 - 89.22%
10. Norton version 2003 - 88.76%

E. 10-12 May 2002

1. F-Secure version 5.30.7262 - 99.73%
2. Kaspersky version 4.0.5.0 - 99.52%
3. McAfee version 6.0 - 95.39%
4. e-Scan Pro version 2.5.181 - 93.35%
5. Command version 9.64.0 - 93.07%
6. PC-Cillin version 2002 - 92.80%
7. RAV version 8.5.80 - 90.54%
8. Dr. Web version 4.27b - 90.37%
9. F-Prot version 3.12 - 89.22%
10. Sophos Sweep version 3.57 - 89.16%

are these tests trustworthy ?

 

Well, not really, but the main page does note that test results will be posted on March 1 and September 1 for the on-demand tests and June 1 and December 1 for the proactive/retrospective tests. My recollection is that they are quite prompt with respect to posting on the listed dates, so you have a week and a half wait to go...

Blue

 

First of all, thanks for reply.

I saw similar results with VTC scanner tests of university of hamburg computer science department.
http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vtc/naveng.htm
Top three antiviruses were mcafee, f-secure and kaspersky.

By the way, the "overview of the comparatives" of Av-comparatives was the same way. The top two performers were kaspersky and mcafee. All results were "advanced+".
http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/overview.html

The results are very similar. McAfee, F-Secure and Kaspersky seem to be winners and top three.

Regards