August 2010 Virus Bulletin Results Summary

[Corrine]

The results have been posted for the August 2010 VB Tests.

From Virus Bulletin : VB100 award - latest comparative

VB100 - Windows Vista Business Edition Service Pack 2

With another epic haul of 54 products to test this month, the VB test team could have done without the bad behaviour of a number of products: terrible product design, lack of accountability for activities, blatant false alarms in major software, numerous problems detecting the WildList set, and some horrendous instability under pressure.

Bolded below are some interesting failures from the summary, located at Virus Bulletin : VB100 results summary. If these products failed on Windows Vista, does anyone think they would do any better on Windows 7? I don't.

Failures:

BitDefender
CA Business & CA Consumer
Digital Defender
eEye
eScan
Fileseclab
Gdata
Kingsoft Advanced & Standard
Lavasoft Total Security
McAfee & McAfee Total Protection
Norman
Preventon
Qihoo
Rising
VIRUSFighter Pro

 

[hackerman1]

hi !

THANKS Corrine !

very interesting reading.
among the free A/V´s Avira, Avast & MSE got "VB100", as usual....
i attached 3 screenshots showing the results.

did you notice that Emsisoft also got a "VB100" ?

for those that doesn´t already know it, a-squared (a2) is now renamed to Emsisoft Anti Malware (EAM)...

 

[malexous]

BitDefender failed because of 15 false positives, however, it is usually low on false positives as can be seen on AV-Comparatives tests. It did once have very bad false positives.

G Data failed because it uses the BitDefender engine along with the Avast! engine.

among the free A/V´s Avira, Avast & MSE got "VB100", as usual....

MSE has been tested three times, failing once.

 

[Borg 386]

Thanx for the info everyone

Of course McAfee would be on the list...I have 1st hand experience with that...unfortunately

I did read an interesting article a while back, if I find it, I'll post it, but apparently the "wild list" they use for determining the rankings is somewhat outdated in most cases and they are slow to add to the list the newer variants. The article said that since this list is so circulated, almost all AV companies test good since they have access to that list and results are based on that.

 

[Dinesh]

Guys what are your thoughts about Sunbelt Vipre AV?

 

[Corrine]

I have high regard for Alex Eckelberry and my old friend Patrick Jordan/Webhelper as well as Chris Boyd/Paperghost and Eric Howes. However, I don't know how the acquisition by GFI Software will impact Sunbelt Software. GFI is enterprise-oriented rather than consumer.

GFI Software Enhances its Security Product Offering with the Acquisition of Sunbelt Software

 

[Dinesh]

I have high regard for Alex Eckelberry and my old friend Patrick Jordan/Webhelper as well as Chris Boyd/Paperghost and Eric Howes. However, I don't know how the acquisition by GFI Software will impact Sunbelt Software. GFI is enterprise-oriented rather than consumer.

GFI Software Enhances its Security Product Offering with the Acquisition of Sunbelt Software

Thanks for the info Corrine.

 

[Corrine]

You're welcome.

 

[freaky88]

Guys what are your thoughts about Sunbelt Vipre AV?

it is good

they have a dns server now, it blocks bad sites so its like an extra AV without installing anything, vipre AV is really good to

YouTube - ‪VIPRE anti-virus review (HD)‬‎

 

[Dinesh]

Guys what are your thoughts about Sunbelt Vipre AV?

it is good

they have a dns server now, it blocks bad sites so its like an extra AV without installing anything, vipre AV is really good to

YouTube - ‪VIPRE anti-virus review (HD)‬‎

I did get an email invitation to try their DNS servers. Im now installing vipre av premium.

 

[hackerman1]

Thanx for the info everyone

Of course McAfee would be on the list...I have 1st hand experience with that...unfortunately

I did read an interesting article a while back, if I find it, I'll post it, but apparently the "wild list" they use for determining the rankings is somewhat outdated in most cases and they are slow to add to the list the newer variants. The article said that since this list is so circulated, almost all AV companies test good since they have access to that list and results are based on that.

well, if the A/V-companies has acess to that list, then what does that change ?

if they ALL have access to the list, then of course ALL of them have the SAME chance to improve their detection...

 

[Borg 386]

hey hackerman1,

I wish I could find the article, I just browsed it, but basically they were saying that since the list is somewhat outdated, that the companies using that to test their software don't usually go beyond that and new variants are slow to be added. This means that once they pass the wild list test, they assume it's up to date.

It had some good points in it....

I gotta remember to bookmark stuff like that....damn ADHD