AntiVir, 10 others, fail Virus Bulletin's latest tests

[thathagat]

well read here..............http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/10/antivir-10-others-fail-virus-bulletins-october-2009-test.ars

quote:

Almost half of the products did not manage to meet these requirements: 15 products passed the test, leaving 11 products to fail. Here are the ones that passed and failed, as well as the reason for not passing:
Pass: Alwil avast!, AVG I.S. Network Edition, BitDefender Security, CA eTrust, eScan Internet Security, ESET NOD32, F-Secure Anti-Virus, G Data AntiVirus, K7 Total Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee VirusScan, Microsoft Forefront, Quick Heal AntiVirus Lite, Symantec Endpoint, and Trustport Antivirus 2009.
15
Fail: AhnLab V3Net (171 wildlist misses), Authentium Command (159 wildlist misses), Avira AntiVir Server (1 wildlist miss), Filseclab Twister (5655 wildlist misses, 1 false positive), Fortinet FortiClient (38 wildlist misses), Frisk F-PROT (159 wildlist misses), Ikarus virus.utilities (3759 wildlist misses, 4 false positives), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Advanced (98 wildlist misses), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Standard (2461 wildlist misses), Sophos Anti-Virus (1 wildlist miss), and VirusBuster for Servers (5 wildlist misses).

[safeguy]

The two most noticeable failures on this list are Sophos and Avira, though they both only missed one malware sample. "Avira couldn't detect only one of several thousand infected files, therefore the detection rate was not 100, but 99,99997 percent," an Avira spokesperson told Ars. "The rule for a VB100 is to have 100 percent, so Avira didn't get the VB100 award this time. The problem was already fixed by the time the VB magazine was published. All Avira products are able to detect 100 percent of the files since then." On the other side of the tests, we should note that Microsoft's success with its Forefront product is promising not only for business users, but for consumers as well, given that it uses the same engine as the newly released Microsoft Security Essentials.

The next VB test results will be posted two months from now and will be for Windows 7, though actual testing will be conducted in November.

LOL...Avira only missed 1 sample and that is rather forgivable to me. Still an Avira fan here.

P.S. I am rather surprised with Microsoft Forefront getting full 100%. That's really a big achievement for the company. And a really good news for us consumers as MSE uses the same engine as Microsoft Forefront.

[fletch]

I thought MSE used the one-care engine.

The Microsoft Forefront is the businesses version and not free.

[alpha1]

Kaspersky Detected all. Excellent.

[ance]

Well done AVG

[Arvin]

nod32 passed yes