How Good is your anti-virus?

Question

2007 ant-virus stats. See how yours Ranks.
If yours is not in here than you're shioterino
out of luck!
This is the list of the top 20 antivirus applications

01. Kaspersky version 7.0.0.43 beta - 99.23%
02. Kaspersky version 6.0.2.614 - 99.13%
03. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.308 - 99.13%
04. ZoneAlarm with KAV Antivirus version 7.0.337.000 - 99.13%
05. F-Secure 2007 version 7.01.128 - 98.56%
06. BitDefender Professional version 10 - 97.70%
07. BullGuard version 7.0.0.23 - 96.59%
08. Ashampoo version 1.30 - 95.80%
09. eScan version 8.0.671.1 - 94.43%
10. Nod32 version 2.70.32 - 94.00%
11. CyberScrub version 1.0 - 93.27%
12. Avast Professional version 4.7.986 - 92.82%
13. AVG Anti-Malware version 7.5.465 - 92.14%
14. F-Prot version 6.0.6.4 - 91.35%
15. McAfee Enterprise version 8.5.0i+AntiSpyware module - 90.65%
16. Panda 2007 version 2.01.00 - 90.06%
17. Norman version 5.90.37 - 88.47%
18. ArcaVir 2007 - 88.24%
19. McAfee version 11.0.213 - 86.13%
20. Norton Professional 2007 - 86.08%

Answer 1

The source of this is virus.gr.

They are not very reliable (but relying on opinion of users is even worse, most don't have a clue, and a lot of fake reviews and ratings, that give good ratings for afilifiate sales), their test methodology is flawed. Some of their past results are very very obviously wrong (e.g products using the same antivirus engines differing results by a lot!!!)

Do you know how they determine if something is a virus in their test set? Something is a virus if Kaspersky,or F-Prot or Nod32, Dr.Web or BitDefender or McAfee says it is!.

Rubbish. In real tests you should determine if your test bed is valid independently (human analysis) The way they are doing is similar to a teacher setting a test by polling a couple of students on the class on what the answer is, and accepting whatever answer they give and taking those as the correct answers (some might be wrong -false arams) and the *only* answers (lots of malware cannot be detected by any).

http://www.av-comparatives.org/ is slightly better but pretty much the same problem with test beds, they probably don't reflect real world performance.

Want real results? http://winnow.oitc.com/AntiVirusPerformance.html

This is way better than any of the other tests, because this is real time real world stats. Whenever a human analyst finds an infection he will upload it to virustotal for checking. This is as close to real performance as viruses uploaded will be those that really exist in the real world as opposed to in virus collections.

The results generally suck, with Antivir doing best but that is with heuristics turned all the way up and high false positives (fortinet has the same problem). Webwasher is actually a gateway level scanner using Antivir plus something else that is why they are #1

Kaspersky that many people worship? 50% only lol. But better than a lot of others.

You can even see what happens to detection rates if you combine several antiviruses.

Moral of story? Don't rely on antiviruses to keep your safe. There are much better methods like using applications that do sandboxing/ virtualization and behavior blockers (Kaspersky 6 has this but it is not tested here) .

Answer 2

Its funny, peoples reviews often are much different than the editors reviews. Spending a ton of money on advertising biases what is tested and the reviews.

Purchased Active (full time) Virus Protection

NOD32 is said to use the least system resources.

http://reviews.cnet.com
User Rating out of 10
Avast Antivirus 4.7 Home Edition....8.6
AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional..... 9.1
BitDefender Antivirus 10 ...............5.2
CA Internet Security Suite 2007.......2.5
F-Secure .......................no user ratings
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 ....................5.8
McAfee VirusScan 8.0...................... 5.0
NOD32 2.5...................................... 9.1
Norton Internet Security 2007.......... 3.8
Norton 360 ----------- 5.8
Sophos Anti-Virus 3.7...................... 8.6
Windows Live OneCare ..................8.0
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7 ... 5.2
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Free Protection

In addition to a firewall you must have full time (active) virus protection and full time spyware protection.

All the following programs are free.
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Full Time (Active) Virus Protection
If you do not have active virus protection, install only one. All are excellent.
Try AVG first.

AVG Antivirus 7.5 Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5
http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10669237.html?tag=lst-0-1
or
Free antivirus - avast! 4 Home Edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
or
AOL Active Virus Shield (powered by Kaspersky)
http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp
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Full Time (Active) Spyware Protection

Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
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Install the following five programs and run weekly or at least monthly. You need all five. They will greatly increase your protection. They are not a substitute for full time spyware and virus protection.

Ad-Aware SE Personal (update + full scan)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Spybot Search & Destroy (update + immunize + scan)
Do not enable Tea Timer and SDHelper
After installation: update + scan + immunize
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

SpywareBlaster: Update then open and click “enable all protection”.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SUPERAntiSpyware free version: (update + scan)
http://www.superantispyware.com/

CCleaner: Do not install toolbar option
Removes tracking cookies, unneeded files, history
In options.
Set to run when computer starts.
Place cookies you want to keep in save list
http://www.ccleaner.com/
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McAfee Site Advisor: Internet Explorer and Firefox
http://www.siteadvisor.com/
Indicates if a site is unsafe and can link to a page to explain why it is unsafe.

Answer 3

My antivirus software is light years ahead in technology of all twenty listed programs.

The Govt. Of China, has not given permission for their software to be evaluated for performance. I can assure you for a one time payment for life of $29.99, includes all updates and all new versions my program will out perform any listed antivirus known. (Never had one virus in over ten years).

http://www.filseclab.com

Minddoctor, France

Answer 4

I use #3. It uses the Kaspersky engine and is FREE!

Answer 5

Mine is great. Want to buy some C1alis or Lev1tra or v1agra. she Wants hu6e sizes!

Yeah, mine works totally fine.

Answer 6

Norton works great for me.

Answer 7

Norton works great and I have no problem with it.

Answer 8

mine is the best at 100% .... I don't use one... never have never will,, and never had a virus yet,,, and I have been using computers for longer than I can remember

Answer 9

I have AVG and it works great, plus it is easy to use.

Answer 10

it depends who ya talk to, and it changes daily. there is no best.