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This test was
conducted in early 2009; the
database of samples (containing
viruses, worms, trojans, etc.) this
year has increased to 58000 (some of
the oldest samples were removed,
otherwise the number would had been
bigger).
The importance of
a test of this kind has decreased in
the last years, because of the
spreading of internet everywhere:
now a virus can infect the computers
of half world in a few hours, so a
test of this kind is not so useful
like it was a few years ago (a great
test should show the speed of an
antivirus to update and react to new
threats).
Anyway, a test
like this has still an interesting
side: the percentage of virus
detected from free AVs changes a
lot, so it can be useful to
understand the difference between
free AVs.
Just like every
year, each antivirus
was updated before the test.
|
Ranking |
Name |
licence |
Virus detected
|
|
1 |
Kaspersky Antivirus
2009 |
shareware |
92.39% |
|
2 |
F-Secure 2009 |
shareware |
91.08% |
|
3 |
BitDefender 2009 |
shareware |
91.01% |
|
4 |
Avast! Home 4.8 |
free |
90.41% |
|
5 |
Avira Antivir Classic 8.2 |
free |
90.10% |
|
6 |
McAfee Viruscan Plus 2009 |
shareware |
88.17% |
|
7 |
Panda Antivirus 2009 |
shareware |
85.95% |
|
8 |
Norton Antivirus 2009 |
shareware |
84.53% |
|
9 |
Eset Nod32 3 |
shareware |
83.91% |
|
10 |
AVG 8 Free |
free |
83.46% |
|
11 |
Rising Antivirus free |
free |
81.24% |
|
12 |
ClamWin 0.94.1 |
open source |
80.88% |
|
13 |
Comodo
Antivirus |
free |
78.50% |
|
14 |
PcTools Antivirus |
free |
77.12% |
|
15 |
MoonSecure 2 |
open source |
74.03% |
I have not inserted the time scans
because I did not consider them very meaningful,
since it would be very difficult in the real life
finding a pc with thousands and thousands of
different viruses (vice versa it would be possible
finding a pc with many viruses of the same kind). In
any case, the time with infected samples, changed
from a few hours (Nod32, Antivir) to 12 hours
(Norton 2009, that in any case is fairly faster with
not infected files). The
free AVs performed well even this year; AOL McAfee
(that last year arrived in top 3) is no more free,
but Avast! Home and Antivir are still on the top
part of this test.
Comodo Antivirus had a lot of improvements, but it is still at the bottom
of the list.
Just like last year, the difference between ClamWin
and MoonSecure (that should be based on the same
database) still remains. |
