August 2010 Virus Bulletin Results Summary
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August 2010 Virus Bulletin Results Summary
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
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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)...
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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.
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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back, if I find it, I'll post it, but apparently the "wild list" they use for determining the rankings is somewhat outdated in most cases and they are slow to add to the list the newer variants.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.
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Guys what are your thoughts about Sunbelt Vipre AV?
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Thanks for the info Corrine.
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I did get an email invitation to try their DNS servers. Im now installing vipre av premium.