Virus Bulletin ran tests for its August 2009 Comparative Review

6 August 2009 - "Security vendors including CA and Symantec failed to secure Windows systems without fault in recent independent tests. Twelve of the 35 anti-virus products put through their paces by independent security certification body Virus Bulletin failed to make the grade for one reason or another and therefore failed to achieve the VB100 certification standard. The main faults were either a failure to detect a threat known to be in circulation (one particularly tricky polymorphic file infector caused the most grief in this area) or creating a false alarm about a file known to be benign. Virus Bulletin's VB100 tests benchmarks the performance of a vendor submitted anti-virus product against a set of malware from the WildList, a list of viruses known to be circulating. To gain VB100 certification, a security product must correctly detect all of these malware strains without blowing the whistle when scanning a batch of clean files. Vendors only get one run at passing the tests, which are conducted free of charge to security software manufacturers... The results of the August 2009 VB100 review can be seen here* (free registration required)... Virus Bulletin recently began assessing the reactive and proactive detection abilities of anti-virus products alongside the long-established VB100 tests. The new tests are a reflection that the malware landscape has changed radically over recent years, with greater malware volumes and targeted attacks... overall performance of security products in proactively detecting malware was "disappointingly low" in several cases (see chart here**). "We saw some particularly poor detection of emerging threats and the products in question have a lot of work to do if they are to provide acceptable protection for their customers...."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/06/vi...ti_virus_tests/

* http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/2009/08

** http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug09.jpg

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Products - GData AV 2010 & Trustport AV 2009.
Anyone had any experience with these 2 Anti Virus products? [strengths & weaknesses ]

Symantec failed in Endpoint protection but next year I will be going with Gdata as it uses 2 antivirus engines for exceptional malware detection. However its RAM requirement is double 360's - 512MB vs 256MB. Too many people have kaspersky installed with strange results not limited to STOP errors.