Interesting anti virus and antimalware test.............

[Wayne in BC]

I got this today from Jay, he is very respected in the tech community. Wayne

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Collaborative AV detection test and protection results

Conducted by DragonMaster Jay of Advanced Malware Analysts, 23rd day of October, 2010.


The following are antivirus detection only, so any other components automatically activated in the program are deactivated. The only components that are tested is the detection and protection aspects. However, the components activated (proactive malware detection and on-demand scanner) are used with the highest settings possible.

Malware tested was used with 4200 recent malware (7 days). The samples are private and cannot be provided.


Best On-Demand (1=best, 10=worst)

1. ESET
2. Avira
3. G DATA
4. Avast
5. BitDefender
6. F-Secure
7. PC Tools
8. Norton
9. Kaspersky
10. Microsoft Security Essentials

Unrecommended
11. McAfee
12. AVG Antivirus
13. Panda
14. Trend Micro
15. Kingsoft


Best detection (1=best, 10=worst) [FP LEVEL 1-5, 1 being low, 5 being high]

1. G DATA Antivirus (99.9%)[2]
2. Avira Antivirus (99.7%)[2]
3. McAfee Antivirus (99.5%)[4]
4. BitDefender Antivirus (99.4%)[1]
5. Avast Antivirus (99.3%)[2]
6. F-Secure Antivirus (99.2%) [1]
7. Panda Antivirus (99.1%)[5]
8. Norton Antivirus (98.9%)[2]
9. ESET Antivirus (98.7%)[1]
10. Kaspersky Antivirus (98.5%)[4]

Unrecommended
11. AVG Antivirus (98.2%)[3]
12. PC Tools (98.1%)[2]
13. Microsoft Security Essentials (97.9%)[1]
14. Trend Micro (91.2%)[3]
15. Kingsoft (82.3%)[4]

Bonus: test all samples with three mainstream anti-malware scanner, detection test only, top 3:

1. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (96.8%)[1]
2. A-Squared Anti-Malware with Ikarus engine (96.6%)[2]
3. SUPERAntiSpyware (57.4%)[3]


OVERALL TOP 5

1. G DATA (detected most & passed zero-day test)
2. Avira (detected second-most & passed zero-day test)
3. BitDefender (good detection & passed zero-day test)
4. Avast (good detection & passed zero-day test)
5. ESET (good detection & passed zero-day test)


Who would have been eligible for top 5?
1. Kaspersky (good detection and passed zero-day test)
2. Norton (good detection but failed zero-day test)
3. F-Secure (good detection but failed zero-day test)
4. McAfee (excellent detection but failed zero-day test)
5. Microsoft Security Essentials (good detection but failed zero-day test)


Who did not stand a chance for top 5?
1. PC Tools (good detection but too many false positives and failed zero-day test)
2. Panda (good detection but too many false positives and failed zero-day test)
3. AVG (good detection but way too many false positives and somewhat passed zero-day test)
4. Trend Micro (moderate detection but way too many false positives and failed zero-day test)
5. Kingsoft (bad detection, way too many false positives, and failed zero-day test)



Recommended free antivirus top 3:

1. Avira
2. Microsoft Security Essentials (picked 2, only because of passing great levels on free license only)
3. Avast


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DragonMaster Jay
Group Leader/Malware Researcher
Cheetah-Anti-Malware Development Group