VB100 April 2010 Report

[thathagat]

In April 2010 60 products were tested, 40 of which won a VB100 award.
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some notables...
Avira, Avast and AVG passed...Emsisoft ,MSE, F-Prot, ZoneAlarm, VIPRE, Lavasoft fail

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[sreeparna]

Hi,
I dont have a subscription to their magazine.Can anyone pls tell me what kind of test they did?
And how come the big guns like Emsisoft ,MSE,ZoneAlarm, VIPRE achieve FAIL status ?

[noaccount]

subscription is not needed to see summary, only registration (free) is needed.
& kaspersky did not fail..

The requirements for VB100 (virus) certification are:

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100% detection of malware listed as 'In the Wild' by the WildList Organization.

The WildList to be used for each test will be the latest available at the time of the test deadline. This deadline will be communicated to potential participants, and publicised on the VB website approximately two weeks prior to the submission deadline for each test. All samples in the WildList collection are verified and replicated from originals provided by the WildList Organization.

'Detection' in this case is accepted if the product clearly marks a file as infected in its log or on-screen display, or denies access to it during on-access testing. If such logging or blocking is unavailable or deemed unusable for test purposes, deletion or attempted disinfection of samples will also be an accepted indicator of detection.

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No false positives when scanning VB's collection of known-clean files.

The collection of known-clean files includes the test sets used for speed measurements, and is subject to regular and unannounced updating and enlargement. A false positive will be counted if a product is considered to have flagged a file clearly as infected in its log or on-screen display.

A false positive will not be recorded if a file is labelled as something other than malware, such as adware, or a legitimate item of software with potentially dangerous uses. All other alerts on clean files will be counted as false positives.

Flags will be adjudged to mark either a detection, in which case any files marked thus will be counted as detections in the infected set or as false positives in the clean sets, or mere suspicion, in which case no detection or false positive will be recorded. There will be no overlap between the two.

All tests will be performed both on demand and on access. Any failure to detect a sample from the WildList set, in either mode, or a false positive alert in either mode, will result in a product failing to qualify for the VB100 award.

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/about/100procedure.xml

[sreeparna]

& kaspersky did not fail..

I am sorry.I mistakenly saw the result of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6

[noaccount]

hmm. considering its kaspersky thats a reason to ban

[sujay]

Nice to see that free AV's like
Avira, Avast, AVG, Rising, Preventon and Digital Defender won the test.

Didn't get why there is a difference between Kaspersky and Kaspersky Antivirus 2010..

[dredge]

Kaspersky 6 is the virus scanning engine for kaspersky's OEM product like what f-secure did previously. Kaspersky claims that its version 6 is still competitive but the true thing is kaspersky 6 is bloat and slower compare to the latest version and hence f-secur now switch to bitdefender.

But the product tested in the VB100 test is actually kaspersky antivirus for workstation 6, which means that it is a product for business and honestly, I don't think this product is still using kaspersky 6 virus scanning engine. Perhaps it uses older virus scanning method than kaspersky antivirus 2010?

The most interesting thing for me is qihoo 360 security-it passed again and achieved 100% pass rate.this is a very great achievement for the newbie in security software.

[drthanhtai]

The most interesting thing for me is qihoo 360 security-it passed again and achieved 100% pass rate.this is a very great achievement for the newbie in security software.

Qihoo 360 (developed by Qizhi Software (beijing) Co. Ltd) use BitDefender engine

But the product tested in the VB100 test is actually kaspersky antivirus for workstation 6, which means that it is a product for business and honestly, I don't think this product is still using kaspersky 6 virus scanning engine. Perhaps it uses older virus scanning method than kaspersky antivirus 2010?

Yes, I agree with you, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 passed this test

[sm1]

Another interesting test is the RAP test see: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml

[leofelix]

MSE, F-Prot, ZoneAlarm, VIPRE, Lavasoft failed.
I'm not suprised