Virus Bulletin conducted it’s most recent tests in November and the results were made available this month. The security research company evaluated 43 antimalware products (product submission deadline was October 28) for the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Professional.
Out of the 43 antimalware products, 36 products passed and 7 ( what a coincidence ) failed. The basic requirements for a product passing the test is detecting, both on demand and on access using its default settings, all malware known to be “In the Wild” at the time of the review, and not detecting any false positives when scanning a set of clean files. The products were pitted against thousands of unique samples of malware that fall into four categories: WildList viruses, worms and bots, polymorphic viruses, and Trojans.
Just under a fifth of the products unfortunately did not manage to meet these requirements: 36 products passed the test, leaving seven products to fail. Here are the ones that passed and failed, as well as the reason for not passing.
- Pass: Alwil avast! 4.8, Arcabit ArcaVir 2010, Authentium Command Anti-Malware, AVG Internet Security, Avira AntiVir Personal, Avira AntiVir Professional, BitDefender Antivirus 2010, Bullguard 8.7, eScan Internet Security Suite, ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5, Fortinet FortiClient, Frisk F-PROT, F-Secure Internet Security 2010, F-Secure Protection Services, GDATA AntiVirus 2010, K7 Total Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6, Kingsoft Anti-Virus 2010 Advanced, Kingsoft Anti-Virus 2010 Standard, McAfee Total Protection, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, Microsoft Forefront Client Security, Microsoft Security Essentials, Nifty Corporation Security 24, PC Tools Internet Security, PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AV, Preventon Antivirus, Qihoo 360 Security, Quick Heal AntiVirus Lite, Sophos Endpoint Security and Control, Sunbelt Vipre, Symantec Endpoint Security 11, Trustport Antivirus 2009, VirusBuster Professional, and Webroot AntiVirus with SpySweeper.
- Fail: AhnLab V3Net I.S. 8.0 (one wildlist miss), CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2010 (three wildlist misses), CA Threat Manager (two wildlist misses), eEye Blink Professional (13 wildlist misses, 1 false positive), Filseclab Twister Anti-TrojanVirus (1920 wildlist misses, 2 false positives), Kingsoft Anti-Virus 2010 Swinstar (one wildlist miss), and Norman Security Suite (13 wildlist misses).
The majority of the security companies passed without any problem. Out of the ones that failed, i cant say any of those names are very familiar to me, but if you happen to be using any of them, perhaps you may look at changing your anti-virus. Microsoft’s new antivirus, Microsoft Security Essentials passed with flying colors, but this was to be expected as it would be quite an embarrassment for Microsoft if it hadn’t.
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I just bought acer 11.6″ netbook at radio shack on black Friday for a Christmas present and it came with CA IS 2010 free, looks like the trash can will be getting internet security this year for Christmas
Surprised not to see Norton in there!
really
why dont i see Norton 360
i thinks it is the best at all
Grisoft is still the best for free AVG.
Never had a problem.
Haven’t paid for antivirus since 1998
I have 5 computers on my network.
They actually tested Symantec Endpoint Security (which is Nortons managed version). Norton’s personal version isn’t on the list because the testers couldn’t afford a personal computer with specs capable of running it =P. Norton is a resource hog and it really isn’t that good, it has missed allot that AVG free catches. Norton’s strength is their firewall which doesn’t help with url based viruses and doesn’t help home users behind hardware firewalls. Norton and SEP are really just useful for banks and large sized networks.
Norton really is a terrible anti-virus software, especially since you have to pay to run the program that’ll slow your computer down to a halt. AVG is decent for a free anti-virus, but even it misses things. I’ve been running the free version of Avast! Anti-virus, and never had a single problem. I even scanned something I knew was infected with AVG, and it didn’t see it, but Avast! got it, and quarantined it immediately for me. Between AVG and Avast!, there’s really no competition for anti-virus software anymore. Everything else is pointless.
I still stick with Microsoft Security Essentials. Its quiet in the background, has real-time scanning, and picks up the viruses before I know it. Plus its Microsoft’s virus scanner, so they know what should be allowed and what shouldn’t be in terms of screwing up an operating system.
I use Comodo Internet security suite it’s brilliant, it’s free & they have many more free programs like Comodo system cleaner.
i use nod32 an its not the best. i had a virus that would download random files off the net. it blocked those attempts but even after a scan and it detecting files and deleting the infected one it still was there cuz the task manager kept getting disabled!! idk what will be the best for my sisters new laptop cuz shes only 10 and probably will get a virus sooner or later. @chieftain20 nobodys perfect so i doubt microsoft knows everything about their own OS. and i dont even knw what windows defender’s use is anymore cause it doesnt find anything or block anything.
I have been running Avast! for several years and I, like others here, have never had a problem. Because it is so good, I opted to subscribe to pay these developers back for such a great product.