Malware Comparison Report - nod32 holds its own...

Alpine · Dec 4, 2008

AV-Comparatives, the Austrian team of experts dedicated to antivirus tests acknowledged as a reference point in the field, has published the second part of the mid-year comparative...

As already highlighted in the previous tests, AVIRA AntiVir continues to be the leading edge of worldwide antivirus software being able to detect 71% of unknown samples after the first week and 67% after the fourth. Kaspersky regains the ground lost in the August comparative achieving the first place together with AVIRA with set A (71% in this case too) and the second (60%) with set B.

Behind AntiVir and KAV go GDATA (66% with set A and 59% with set B), NOD32 (54% and 51%), Sophos (51% & 50%) with all the rest following. It’s worth reporting that, in comparison to the August comparative when they achieved the third place, Symantec Norton Anti-Virus and McAfee VirusScan go down by 4 positions and more. Andreas Clementi highlights how those kind of proactive protections used in real-time scanning have been intentionally excluded from the tests, nonetheless their activation could increase the detection rates of unknown threats in regard of the simple heuristic on-demand scan.
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Now for the best part. If you actually read the fine article it goes on to note Avira's high rate of false positives and recommends NOD32 instead.

So the certification level ADVANCED+ has been achieved by ESET NOD32 only, that has detected 20% less of the samples that AVIRA AntiVir has discovered but has triggered only 7 false alarms. AntiVir, on the contrary, with its 17 false positives hasn’t gone beyond the ADVANCED certification level, which also includes Kaspersky, Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee and GDATA.
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I'm impressed...

elapsed · Dec 4, 2008

I don't mean to offend, but as impressive as this is, it has been previously posted.

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