Virus Bulletin Anti-Virus Reactive & Proactive Test Results

jmke · 7th August 2009, 09:59

Security vendors including CA and Symantec failed to secure Windows systems without fault in recent independent tests. Twelve of the 35 anti-virus products put through their paces by independent security certification body Virus Bulletin failed to make the grade for one reason or another and therefore failed to achieve the VB100 certification standard. The main faults were either a failure to detect a threat known to be in circulation (one particularly tricky polymorphic file infector caused the most grief in this area) or creating a false alarm about a file known to be benign. (src: Charles/email , thanks!)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08...i_virus_tests/

jmke · 7th August 2009, 09:59

7th August 2009, 16:18

All very nice, but I wonder what the difference will be between the free versions and paid versions of some virus scanners ???

9th August 2009, 10:04

Probably none, unless they disabled some features.

The "free" AVG used to not protect against spyware/adware while the paid version did, but AVG fixed this earlier this year and now both offer the same detection capabilities just to give one example.

9th August 2009, 16:24

Looks like Avira did great and its free for home use

7th August 2009, 09:59	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Virus Bulletin Anti-Virus Reactive & Proactive Test Results Security vendors including CA and Symantec failed to secure Windows systems without fault in recent independent tests. Twelve of the 35 anti-virus products put through their paces by independent security certification body Virus Bulletin failed to make the grade for one reason or another and therefore failed to achieve the VB100 certification standard. The main faults were either a failure to detect a threat known to be in circulation (one particularly tricky polymorphic file infector caused the most grief in this area) or creating a false alarm about a file known to be benign. (src: Charles/email , thanks!) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08...i_virus_tests/ __________________

7th August 2009, 09:59	#2
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7th August 2009, 16:18	#3
wutske Posts: n/a	All very nice, but I wonder what the difference will be between the free versions and paid versions of some virus scanners ???

9th August 2009, 10:04	#4
Kougar Posts: n/a	Probably none, unless they disabled some features. The "free" AVG used to not protect against spyware/adware while the paid version did, but AVG fixed this earlier this year and now both offer the same detection capabilities just to give one example.

9th August 2009, 16:24	#5
Rutar Posts: n/a	Looks like Avira did great and its free for home use