At the beginning of this November we will see various antivirus test results from Av-comparatives. Some time ago Av-comparatives tests antivirus issued in 3rd quarter of 2009, which focuses on the ability of direct virus scan (On-demmand comparative) with sample virus / malware around 1.6 million.

Malware sample of about 1.6 million includes: windows viruses, trojans, worms, backdoors and others.

Test in the 3rd quarter of this year was begin at middle of August 2009, and the final results was updated around mid-September. However, this test is the latest test result because some versions include a new anti-virus, compared to the previous test. Among of them are, Kaspersky 2010, Avira 9 and Norton Antivirus 2010.

Each antivirus updated on August 10, 2009, and during the testing performed, the settings made at the highest settings, except for Sophos and F-Secure.

Av-comparatives, as we know is independent agency to test a variety of antivirus. Compared to the previous test in May 2009, this test includes new versions of many antivirus like Avira 9, Kaspersky 2010, BitDefender 2010, ESET NOD32, Norton Antivirus and more.

The number of malware samples that are used around 1.6 million, including windows viruses, trojans, worms, backdoor / bot, macro viruses and others (in this article the term "virus" that covers all). This large amount of virus samples was taken between January 2009 to August 2009.

On-demand test is a test by giving a sample virus, antivirus used directly to scan these files. The results will report on how many virus was not detected, scan time and also to detect errors in scanning clean files.

Antivirus products that are included in this test are as follows:

• Avast! Professional Edition 4.8.1384
• AVG Anti-Virus 8.5.406
• Avira Antivir Premium 9.0.0.446
• BitDefender Anti-Virus 13.0.13.254
• eScan Anti-Virus 10.0.997.491
• ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0.437.0
• F-Secure Anti-Virus 10.00.246
• G DATA Antivirus 20.0.4.9
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 9.0.0.463
• KingSoft Antivirus 2009.08.05.06
• McAfee VirusScan Plus 13:11:02
• Microsoft Live OneCare 2.5.2900.28
• Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7:10:02
• Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6.10
• Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 17.0.0.136
• Trustport Antivirus 2.8.0.3017

TEST RESULTS

Av-comparative in this third quarter report 2 test result in giving antivirus rank, the best ability to detect the virus and the number of errors when detecting clean files. In addition, we will also see the comparison results of various antivirus scan speed.

As mentioned earlier, av-comparatives rank on two things: The ability to detect the 1.6 million samples of the virus and the number of errors that are not detect the virus files. The result is as follows:

The results of virus detection capability (1.6 million malware samples)

Number of Error Detection (False Alarm)

Antivirus Scan speed

Rates from av-comparatives

Seeing the results of the above, actually not much different from the results of on-demand test before (Test antivirus on May 2009). The list in big 5 is still the same antivirus.

Scan speed of some products has increased, especially Avast Antivirus. A slight increase happened to Avira, Norton Antivirus, BitDefender, F-secure and Kaspersky. While some other decline, especially the KingSoft, and  McAfee, ESET NOD32 and Norman (though relatively small). While AVG did not increased the speed on this 8.5 version (AVG version 9 has not participated in this test).

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