Virus Bulletin has published the results of its October 2009 test for Windows Server 2008 SP2 32-bit. The outfit tested 26 applications this time around, 11 of which failed, including the popular Avira AntiVir Server and Sophos Anti-Virus.

In order to pass Virus Bulletin's test, the submitted products were required to detect all malware known to be "In the Wild" via both on-demand and on-access, without reporting any false positives. They were bombarded with some 3,000 unique samples of four malware types: WildList viruses, worms and bots, polymorphic viruses, and Trojans.

Although Avira and Sophos' products failed Virus Bulletin's test, they only missed one malware sample out of the thousands faced – in order to receive a VB100 award, applications must detect 100%. That said, Avira told Ars Technica that the issue was sorted before VB's results were published.

Ars has posted a complete list of results for all products tested, which you can view after the jump.

Pass: Alwil avast!, AVG I.S. Network Edition, BitDefender Security, CA eTrust, eScan Internet Security, ESET NOD32, F-Secure Anti-Virus, G Data AntiVirus, K7 Total Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee VirusScan, Microsoft Forefront, Quick Heal AntiVirus Lite, Symantec Endpoint, and Trustport Antivirus 2009.

Fail: AhnLab V3Net (171 wildlist misses), Authentium Command (159 wildlist misses), Avira AntiVir Server (1 wildlist miss), Filseclab Twister (5655 wildlist misses, 1 false positive), Fortinet FortiClient (38 wildlist misses), Frisk F-PROT (159 wildlist misses), Ikarus virus.utilities (3759 wildlist misses, 4 false positives), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Advanced (98 wildlist misses), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Standard (2461 wildlist misses), Sophos Anti-Virus (1 wildlist miss), and VirusBuster for Servers (5 wildlist misses).