Virus Bulletin has published their latest Reactive and Proactive (RAP) test results (February through August 2010) and posted their latest VB100 results.
Virus Bulletin Reactive and Proactive (RAP) Test
Those vendors with Reactive Detection rates greater than 90% and Proactive Detection rates greater than 70% were: Avira Pro, Ikarus, G DATA, Emisoft, Kaspersky, ESET, Coranti, Check Point, and TrustPort. TrustPort topped everyone in both categories, and G DATA had the second best Reactive Detection rate. AVG Technologies just missed being in this group.
Neither McAfee nor Microsoft nor Symantec cleared the 90%/70% hurdle mentioned above with the products Virus Bulletin tested, however.
The RAP test measures products' detection rates across four distinct sets of malware samples. The first three test sets comprise malware first seen in each of the three weeks prior to product submission. These measure how quickly product developers and labs react to new malware emerging every day across the world.
A fourth test set consists of malware samples first seen in the week after product submission. This test set gauges products' ability to detect new and unknown samples proactively, using heuristic and generic techniques. Proactive detection is becoming increasingly more important given the quantity and rate an which new viruses and malware are created.
The chart can best be viewed at http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml . Detailed information about testing methodology is at http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/vb200902-RAP-tests . This information and the chart are available at no charge. Virus Bulletin subscribers have access to the detailed results.
Virus Bulletin VB 100 Awards
To display the VB100 logo, an anti-virus product must have demonstrated that:
• It detects all In the Wild viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning.
• It generates no false positives when scanning a set of clean files.
54 products were tested on the Windows Vista SP2 Business Edition. http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/2010/08 . Some abbreviated results:
The free Amigo’s - Avast, AVG Technologies, and Avira all received VB100 awards. Only Avast appears to have had their “free” product tested.
The 800 Pound Gorillas - Trend Micro wasn’t tested (there’s a story here). Symantec and PC Tools (two products, they’re owned by Symantec) received VB100 awards. Microsoft received a VB100. McAfee failed with both products tested.
G DATA, which did so well in the RAP testing, did not receive a VB100.
Complete details about the VB100 testing is at http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/about/100procedure.xml
Some companies, more than others will proactively put a spin on how many consecutive VB100 awards they have received. The reality is that only the most recent few years and on platforms actively being used are important. Complete track records, by vendor is at http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?display=vendors . Let the spinning begin.
UK based Virus Bulletin started in 1989 (www.virusbtn.com). They provide PC users with a regular source of intelligence about computer viruses, their prevention, detection and removal, and how to recover programs and data following an attack. VB’s website is at www.virusbtn.com . The site is a great source of information on malware and spam. They are a member of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, www.AMTSO.org.
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