Anti-Virus Products - How many?

Hi Guys,

Doing the rounds of some forums I discovered another Av company to check their products. Now this lead me to think "Just How Many AV Companies and Products Are There". Ok, I would consider the answer to be dynamic in qunatity, and the quality to be very diverse.

My first thought was to exclude the well known companies, but that is a subjective matter..
(this has been done before - I thought it was time to revive the subject , oh I was also too lazy to drag the original threads out) [edit]Check this Tutorial by noODle [/edit]

So here is what I have.. a short list .. and in no particular order..

1. Symantec - Norton AV
2. Trend-Micro - PC-Cillin
3. Network Associates - McAfee
4. Frisk Software - F-Prot
5. Grisoft - AVG
6. Authentium - Command Software - Command Com AV
7. Sophos - Sophos AV
8. Panda Software - Panda AV
9. Leprechaun Software - Leprechaun AV
10. GeCAd Sofware - RAV AV - or is that M$ AV
11. SRN Micro - SOLO AV
12. Bitdefender AV
13. Astonsoft Software
14. Computer Associates - eTrust - aka VET (well in some parts of the world)
15. Kaspersky
16. Norman
17.


Sry I haven't put links with every thing here.. but if you want to visit them try this link.. it works for me.. any I don't know?

Cheers

www.free-av.com <--AntiVir Personal Edition

A piece of a previous listing
http://www.kapersky.com
http://www.f-secure.com
http://www.norman.com
To read virus-info go to:
http://www.viruslist.com
To view hoaxes about virii visit:
http://www.vmyths.com

Taken from:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=237724
I removed the duplicates that were allready posted and dead links (I hope I got them all).

Nice posting, perhaps a AV/FW/AT list should be compiled and made sticky.

I agree with noodle about making this sticky.

How about e-safe from Aladdin Industries...............I have always had a soft spot for it, as it includes a "sandbox" and used to whinge like hell when you ran its update.

I must get my wife's box up and running again.................she was studying Spanish, and I loaded a Peruvian AV product that I was beta testing at the time :)

Cheers

Anyone reading this threa should give Noodle's Tutorial thread a read, as he has commented some of the links are dead.. but then that is where I picked up a couple of links months ago..That is a hand tutorial.. suppose we could ask Neg if you can Update the original Post..or shud we wait untill after the big day?..


Cheers

I agree it should be made into a sticky That way there people who come here will have a thread to look at and see what antivirus software is available and not ask "Does anyone know any good antivirus software for windows and where can I download it"

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I agree with noodle about making this sticky.

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Anyone reading this threa should give Noodle's Tutorial thread a read, as he has commented some of the links are dead.. but then that is where I picked up a couple of links months ago..That is a hand tutorial.. suppose we could ask Neg if you can Update the original Post..or shud we wait untill after the big day?..

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Thanks for the compliments.

I have actually started rewriting the tutorial a couple of times but for some reason never got fully to it, mainly because of the dead links and there are some thing not fully covered (like anti-trojan software and anti adware (there is ad-aware but not spybot for example)).
I even made an effort in creating it in AntiCode.
I will make another effort in rewriting this and then figure out if it should be replaced or reposted or something.
I will take me some time to get it straighten it out though.

I will contact Neg or MsM once it is done.

I heard that Panda was better than Nortons, what do you guys think?

Anti Virus products -
Avast Anti virus
Solo Antivirus
nod32

Other links -
Open AntiVirus Project
Trend Micro Webprotect evaluation
Nod32 Antivirus Comparison
Panda Antivirus Comparison

The new Zonealarm comes with pestpatrol.. Might want to have a look at that - Click

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I heard that Panda was better than Nortons, what do you guys think?

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I tend to agree with this for the following reasons:

- Panda scans faster (at least every system I've tested it on)
- Panda definition updates tend to come out quicker then Norton
- When scanning in non-safe mode Panda seems to use less system resources

To name a few reasons off the top of my head...

RRP

Thanks for that.

Good thread:)

As this is bumped here is my frump.

The most popular brands like Norton and MacAfee are seriously in need of some new ideas/scanning engines.

I can upload a proof of concept .exe zipped what will bypass Norton and MacAfee but will install a Trojan when executed on you’re computer. This can be quite tricky when the Trojan/backdoor/rat has firewall bypass and AV kill running.

I rate Kaspersky highly because so far, this will detect these everyday Trojans binded/hexed with another file. (Even adding bytes can bypass these leading industry AV’s)?

Motto being

“Just because a certain percent of the majority say something is good, doesn’t mean it is”


Edit (Just remembered)
F-secure, kapersky & another AV perhaps beginning with "A" use similar scanning techniques?
(Though don’t quote me on that)

So in theory you should be as safe with one as with the other. Depending on that particular company’s service/updates.

Heloo everyone,

I just wanted to add another known antivirus which no one talked about.
And that is SOPHOS AV.
www.sophos.com

:)

One More Antivirus

DrWeb http://www.sald.com/