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Virus Bulletin tests 35 antiviruses, 11 fail, including Symantec
Virus Bulletin threw the programs in a ring with around 3,000 unique samples of malware spread across four categories: Polymorphic viruses, Trojans, WildList viruses and Worms/bots. Of the 35 tested, only 23 passed, meaning about a third of the products fell to the tests. Among the more known solutions is Symantec's Endpoint Protection, which missed two infections on the Wildlist.
Symantec was quick to defend itself in response to Ars Technicia's original coverage of the Virus Bulletin tests. A company spokesperson said that "In the past ten years, Symantec has earned 44 consecutive VB100 awards, something no other vendor has come close to matching." They went on to add that the missed malware is an "extremely rare replicant of a highly polymorphic file infecting virus" and that they have since fixed the issue in their signatures.
You can check out the test in full on Virus Bulletin's website, although I believe you need a subscription. Ars Technica has created a condensed list of the results which you can view after the jump.
- Pass: AhnLab V3 Internet Security, Alwil avast! Professional, AVG Internet Security, Avira AntiVir Professional, CA eTrust ITM, eEye Blink Professional, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Fortinet FortiClient, Frisk F-PROT antivirus, F-Secure Client Security, F-Secure PSB Workstation Security, G DATA AntiVirus 2010, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009, Kingsoft Internet Security 2009 Advanced, McAfee Total Security, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, Microsoft Forefront Client Security, MWTI eScan Internet Security Suite, Nifty Corp. Security24, Norman Security Suite, Quick Heal AntiVirus Lite 2009, Sophos Anti-Virus, and Trustport Antivirus 2009.
- Fail: Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro (one false positive), CA Internet Security Suite (960 polymorphic viruses misses), Filseclab Twister AntiTrojanVirus (2612 wildlist misses, 38 false positives), Finport Simple Anti-Virus (2897 wildlist misses, two false positives), K7 Total Security Desktop (one false positive), Kingsoft Internet Security 2009 Standard (228 wildlist misses), PC Tools AntiVirus 2009 (1188 wildlist misses, one false positive), PC Tools Internet Security 2009 (1355 wildlist misses, one false positive), PC Tools Spyware Doctor (1355 wildlist misses, one false positive), Rising Internet Security 2009 (43 wildlist misses, one false positive), Symantec Endpoint Protection (two wildlist misses), and VirusBuster Professional (one false positive).
User Comments (31)
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Guest
on August 14, 2009 1:22 PM |
Avast, HA...you fail. |
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Guest
on August 14, 2009 1:25 PM |
The best combination I've found is AVG 8.5 Free + Malwarebytes Anti-Malware + Spybot S&D + CCleaner (just to clean things up) |
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detoam
on August 15, 2009 3:57 AM |
I found bitdefender to be the best. Especially their version for gamers. Very little interference. |
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Guest
on August 15, 2009 6:47 PM |
My customers tell me that norton and mcafee are the best after they miss hundreds of spyware and viruses that I clean up with avg. They go out and they buy norton for over 100 dollars and uninstall avg free edition, why? Because they are a bunch of ******. |
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Guest
on August 19, 2009 6:38 PM |
I have been very satisfied with Sunbelt Software's Vipre. Very low overhead, stops the worst infestations that my clients running Norton and McAfee bring for removal. I uninstall their current AV/AM and install Vipre. Vipre provides free of charge a boot time scanner in case you are too infected to be able to control Windows any longer. You just need a friends computer that isn't infected to download the program, and then boot into safe mode and run the program from disk or USB drive. |
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Wendig0
on August 20, 2009 12:27 AM |
I am curious to see how free programs such as Avast fair in these tests Avast works great! In fact, they won an award from Virus Bulletin for this test. |
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