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4th September 2009, 15:22
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  Malware vs Virus Scanners: 12 passed, 13 failed We are happy to announce the results of our latest test, Project#20. Project#20 is first in line of our RWS (real world scenario) tests, in this particular one we used 60 pieces of malware which were collected from infected machines (US, EUROPE, ASIA), we used those samples to test real time blocking capabilities of 25 security applications. The goal of this test is to block all 60 samples of malware from running and infecting the system, all applications that manage to block all the samples will receive MRG System Protected Award.  http://malwareresearchgroup.com/?page_id=2
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4th September 2009, 15:25
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Most popular AVAST and AVG fail; 
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4th September 2009, 17:29
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| For this test yes, but it'll probably pass if another set of malware was used. 60 samples isn't much, considering the amount of virusses that are in the running nowadays. |
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4th September 2009, 17:38
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| one passing is enough to set havoc and allow for others to pass; 0 is the ONLY valid score here.
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4th September 2009, 18:55
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| most likely, yes, none are 100% secure. But widely available malware not being picked up by this popular free scanners is quite an oversight 
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5th September 2009, 08:43
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| i can't believe that avg and avast could really be better than bitdefender overall. |
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5th September 2009, 14:58
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| I had a simple text file with a few names/addresses of online AV scanners that I gave to people that needed it. Bitdefender thought it was a host file attack and would always delete it when I tried to view it... really stupid. AVG and Avast both detected false positives in Folding@home data files, so my opinion of all three is pretty far south. I've seen Panda fail quite a few past AV tests from security companies, so I'm really surprised it survived this one. Will have to see if that turns into a trend... |
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5th September 2009, 16:27
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| I'm still happy with Avast, combined with Comodo firewall, Opera, a nicely filled hosts file and a well fed common sense I feel very safe on the internet, even tough avast is known to miss some viruses here and there. http://www.av-comparatives.org/compa...ews/main-tests |
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