Virus Bulletin has released their October 2012 VB100 testing
and published their RAP Averages Quadrant for the April through October
timeframe. Neither test results were too
exciting. No companies going irate and
withdrawing from further testing, in all likelihood.
The VB100 testing was done on Windows Server 2003. Only 30 products were in the test. One third of the products failed. There were no “major” vendors failing. Emisoft has failed three out of the last four
VB100 tests they have been in. This can’t
be fun for their marketing department.
There were three clusters of vendors who scored over 95% in
Reactive Detection and 80% in proactive detection. It’s not even worth eyeballing to rank within the clusters. These vendors are (from first to third)
- Zeobit, Coranti (clear winners)
- Lavasoft, TrustPort, G Data
- Fortinet, Avira Free, Avira Pro, Roboscan, BitDefender, BullGuard, Emisoft, eScan
There was definitely some movement from the previous test. Congratulations, in particular, to those in “1” and “2” above!
The Top 10 in the February through August test
- Coranti (a clear first among the top 10)
- Huari (a clear second among the top 10)
- Tencent
- Lavasoft
- BitDefender
- G Data
- Avira Pro
- TrustPort
- Emisoft
- Avira Free
Hall of Shame awards in the latest test for scoring below 70%
on Reactive Detection and below 65% of Proactive Detection (from best to
worst), Commtouch, Frisk, Iolo, Total Defense Business, and UnThreat. No fun for these companies http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/latest_comparative/index
Tests like these provide useful information in evaluating the
relative strengths of the products. It
obviously wins out over the wisdom of Facebook fans clicking on like! You can view the RAP
Averages Quadrant chart at
Subscribers to Virus Bulletin's publications have access to
more details on the results.
RAP Averages Quadrant
This 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 the steady flood of
new malware emerging every day across the world. A fourth test set consists of malware samples
first seen in the week after product submission.
VB100 Test Methodology
The purpose of the VB100 comparative is to provide insight
into the relative performance of the solutions taking part in the tests, covering
as wide a range of areas as possible within the limitations of time and
available resources. More details are
available at
UK based Virus Bulletin started in 1989. 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. The Virus Bulletin website is at www.virusbtn.com
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