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April 5th, 2002, 06:17 PM
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April 5th, 2002, 07:14 PM
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I use Kaspersky. I based my choice on an anti-virus-scanner-test in a Belgian magazine. Here are the results of that test (tested with 18.740 viruses, on februari 26,2002):
Symantec Norton Antivirus 2002
Viruses in database: 58.459 (updated Jan. 16, 2002)
Detection
.com-viruses: 13.598
.exe: 3.104
Other binary viruses: 2
Macroviruses: 238
Detection-success: 82%
Cleaning
.com-viruses: 3.940
.exe: 994
other binary viruses: 0
Macroviruses: 227
Cleaning-succes: 56% / detection
48% / total of 18.000 viruses
Kaspersky Antiviral Toolkit Pro
Viruses in database: 50.691 (updated Dec. 21, 2002)
Detection
.com-viruses: 14.059
.exe: 3.221
Other binary viruses: 14
Macroviruses: 245
Detection-success: 90%
Cleaning
.com-viruses: 9.616
.exe: 2.357
other binary viruses: 0
Macroviruses: 234
Cleaning-succes: 78% / detection
70% / total of 18.000 viruses
Alwil Avast32
Viruses in database: 22.169 (updated Jan. 11, 2002)
Detection
.com-viruses: 13.133
.exe: 2.782
Other binary viruses: 1
Macroviruses: 230
Detection-success: 77%
Cleaning
.com-viruses: 13.133
.exe: 2.782
other binary viruses: 0
Macroviruses: 230
Cleaning-succes: 95% / detection
76% / total of 18.000 viruses
F-Secure Antivirus
Viruses in database: - (uses the Kaspersky database) (updated Jan. 22, 2002)
Detection
.com-viruses: 13.940
.exe: 3.194
Other binary viruses: 12
Macroviruses: 243
Detection-success: 88%
Cleaning
.com-viruses: 10.016
.exe: 2.349
other binary viruses: 0
Macroviruses: 236
Cleaning-succes: 79% / detection
70% / total of 18.000 viruses
NAI MCAfee Virusscan
Viruses in database: 59.643 (updated Dec. 21, 2002)
Detection
.com-viruses: 12.797
.exe: 2.390
Other binary viruses: 7
Macroviruses: 243
Detection-success: 83%
Cleaning
.com-viruses: 6.565
.exe: 1.819
other binary viruses: 0
Macroviruses: 230
Cleaning-succes: 71% / detection
61% / total of 18.000 viruses
Statistics, statistics...
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April 5th, 2002, 07:38 PM
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Junior Member
It doesn't actually make any difference how many viruses a certain AV product can recognize since the majority of the viruses do not exist anymore. There are also thousands of viruses that some people just made to "impress" anti-virus researchers. They actually let their code to spread, just sent it to AV houses.
What is important is that the AV product finds viruses that are in the wild. Check the wild list at http://www.virusbtn.com/WildLists/. Note that the wild list is very small compared to the whole list of viruses that products are supposed to find (and maybe clean).
- karnevil9
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April 7th, 2002, 03:01 PM
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Member
Thnx for those nice info guys.
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April 7th, 2002, 03:06 PM
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Umm... dumb question but how could it be updated in December of 2002 when it's only April? Is this one of those super futuristic type of AVs?
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April 8th, 2002, 11:31 AM
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I update my copy of NAV by using LiveUpdater. The number of viruses detected is 60441.
Were I to update NAV using the Symantec IntelligentUpdater, the number of viruses detected would be 60516.
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