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The comparative
was conducted in March 2006 on a sample of over
12000
infected files. Files were infected
with old and new virus, mildly
very harmful, worms, trojans and
similar. These files were unpacked
in a dedicated folder where they got
scanned by the different antivirus
systems.
Each antivirus
was set to operate to the top of its
heuristic and scan
potential. It is
important to note that in the
results enclosed below, the
slowing down of the
OS has not been taken into
consideration.
Every antivirus
has been updated before the test.
Table 1: Results
in descending order of recognition
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Ranking |
Name |
licence |
Percentage virus detected
|
Scan speed |
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1 |
Kaspersky Personal Pro 5 |
shareware |
94.35 % |
4'27" |
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1 |
Antivir PE |
freeware |
94.35 % |
2'25" |
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3 |
F-Secure 2006 |
shareware |
94.00 % |
3'50" |
|
4 |
McAfee Internet Sec 2006 |
shareware |
93.97 % |
5'45" |
|
5 |
BitDefender 9 |
shareware |
93.91% |
2'59" |
|
6 |
BitDefender 8 free |
freeware |
93.77 % |
2'02" |
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7 |
Norton Antivirus 2006 |
shareware |
93.67 % |
18'40" |
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8 |
Symantec Antivirus Corporate 10 |
shareware |
93.65% |
2404' 45" |
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9 |
McAfee Enterprise 8.0i |
shareware |
93.55 % |
8'40" |
|
10 |
Panda Titanium 2006 |
shareware |
93.53% |
5'40" |
|
11 |
Trend Internet Security 2006 |
shareware |
92.94 % |
19'15" |
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12 |
ClamWin 0.87.1 |
open source |
91.41 % |
2'32" |
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13 |
Avast! 4 Home |
freeware |
91.40 % |
4'15" |
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14 |
F-Prot 3.16d |
shareware |
88.78 % |
2'20" |
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15 |
AVG 7.1 free |
freeware |
87.23 % |
45'51" |
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16 |
EZ trust |
shareware |
84.42 % |
13'03" |
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17 |
NOD32 |
shareware |
78.10 % |
1'10" |
NOTE: Kaspersky Personal
has practically reached the same results of
2004 comparative
(94.34%).
The time for the scanning concerns the scanning of
the 12000 infected files. The scanning speed
of infected files can be very different from
scanning speed of files the are not infected:
for example Symantec Antivirus Corporate 10 enters
in lethargy when it finds some viruses... it needed
over 40 hours to perform the test (I repeated other
2 times because I didn't believe to my eyes).
CONSIDERATIONS: It is interesting to see that
the best AV are more or less on the same line, and
that also this year the free antiviruses (Antivir PE
in head) perform good results in comparison to
shareware ones.
Notice that the 1% of difference between an
antivirus and another begins to be meaningful,
because on about hundred of thousands of circulating
virus, the 1% in less it means to be exposed to
thousand of virus more.
Please, remember that the results of this
comparative are exclusively worth for the present
and past viruses. ... there is no guarantee that the
(good) actual performances can reflect in the future
(even if, comparing these results with those of
2004, the changes are a few).
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