On-Demand Detection against old malwares

As many many have already known, I am doing an on-demand test with old malwares.
http://www.raymond.cc/forum/spyware...ection-of-different-av-with-old-malwares.html

This is my first such extensive test, so your suggestions are welcome...

 

Could you test MSE and avast free please. When are we going to see the results?
Can you please tell us what kind of samples are you using?There must be thousands ,do you pick them at random or only the real nasty ones or ?

And how old? (just two years old or more?). It would be nice if you could add some samples up to four years .Thank you..cool job

 

Thanks brainb1, actually I am noob in getting malware samples. I got this collection from a source. It is ~2 years old samples, 2007-2008. And yes the samples are mostly nasty ones. Set 1 contains mainly trojan but the second set is more versatile contains worm, backdoor, exe infector virus etc.
MSE and Avast will come soon. I am also testing less popular ones. So, its taking times.

 

Well then again; when these Anti virus softwares are not detecting new malwares, whats the point of testing old one just a thought.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=277461

 

Lolz, I am doing this test just for fun. And you can find a comment in that thread which fully explains the significance of this test.

 

Can you also test Panda Cloud AV, Prevx, Nod32 and Hitman Pro?

 

I tried to test Prevx, but after detecting about 210 samples in set 1 it froze. Same happened after a restart. So, I will test again after all tests.
About HMP I faced a weired a problem.
http://www.raymond.cc/forum/spyware...ferent-av-with-old-malwares-3.html#post191485

 

was the problem with hitman pro the scaner or what happend thanks

 

Don't know what the problem is. It wasn't uploading malwares to the cloud. Detecting by heuristics only. Also by right click scan on the folder didn't scan anything.

 

Perhaps I can assist in helping to sort out the problem? Please PM me.

 

PM sent..

 

The Cleaner and trend Micro Test added.

 

@sg09

Malwarebytes policy on including malware sample detections:
If it is detected by a majority of the AV companies, we do not include the detection in our product.
We specialize in detecting and removing what others do not.

I do not speak for Malewarebytes. This is what nosirrah, a Malwarebytes researcher has told me.
I am not sure about SAS malware inclusion policy.

 

Hi, my test isn't meant for any conclusion. I know the reason. I was just testing all to make the test complete.

 

Guys after talking with erik I was able to complete the scan. But the detection was not good.
Set 1: 471/500
Set2: 2079/5000

After seeing the nature of malwares he found that those are NE files, 16 bit, script and html which HMP cannot scan right now. But he will soon release a new version that can scan this type of files...

 

thanks for testing hitman pro and good to hear about the scaner improvement

 

You are welcome jmonge..

Sophos added. I am ending my test for now. I will test again soon.

 

What was the problem?

 

so sophos is the champ?thanks

 

Actually with HMP you can't scan a subdirectory and that was here in my case.
@jmonge: Sophos, no until now Emsisoft is the winner but please don't conclude anything from the results.

 

asquare is good man

 

Please test Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool and Norton Security Scan!

 

Are these your samples? Massive improvement from Avira.

Norman decreased its detection on the 5000 samples.

 

@malexous: I didn't know about this test and not sure if the samples are the same. But 500 & 5000 samples, what a coincident.
@alexC: I have tested Kaspersky Virus removal Tool. Norton is yet to be tested. I think I will test NIS.

 

A part from Avira and Norman, the other products in both tests have a slight increase in detection during your testing. Looks like the same samples.

Anyway, thanks for conducting the tests and posting the results.

Edit: I would like to see Ad-Aware FREE tested.