VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test in Security http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16820316 en Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:40:23 EDT Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:40:23 EDT Re: False Positives http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16832081 IBK : yes, in the second part of the test, which will be released in some months.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16832081 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:58:29 EDT False Positives http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16832077 one1112 : Is there anyway to see how many false positives each AV had?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16832077 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:54:14 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16831699 data : I don't understand why so many people are now excited about the results Avira achieved in the recent comparative test. Every AV vendor could make the same detection based on flagging every strange runtime packed file at the cost of producing a high number of false positives. If you use legit software that is protected against reverse engineering, you'd get most of the files flagged as suspicious. In real life, I couldn't live with that, I noticed about 20 FPs because of this in a single day.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16831699 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:54:44 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16831534 Test99 :
said by Mele20 See Profile :

....especially with Avira being free!
I just downloaded Avira Personal Edition Classic. Is that the free version? It says the license is valid until November 30.
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Thanks for clarifying that about Avira and the Premium vs. free detections.
Thanks also for the professional tests!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16830537 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:09:15 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16828185 Jer03 : HI Frisky,

I appreciate the reply, and understand that the test was with the old version. I am looking forward to the test with V4. I understand that IBK is going to run a special test with it. That will be good.

F-Prot (I got corrected for posting F-Protect, but assumed that was what the Prot stood for.) has a loyal following of some very savvy folks, so I am expecting almost miracles. :)

Although I am not currently a user, I appreciate the license fee plan that is very generous and helps famillies and those who have more than one computer. I hope you can continue that, but realize that you might not be able to.

Thanks again, and keep up the good work.

Best Regards,
Jerry]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16828185 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:52:28 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16827258 IBK : as spyware etc. in not included in the test-sets, you can consider that premium and free version would get same results.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16827258 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:35:19 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16827147 Test Man6 : One minor thing to keep in my mind regarding these results is that Avira Premium was the program tested.I hear that the difference between Avira Premium and Avira free is that there is more spyware/adware definitions in Premium.
At any rate these results will cause a lot of users to seriously consider Avira for their a/v needs.
Rightfully so.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16827147 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:02:28 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16827000 Frisky :
said by Jer03 See Profile :

but at the present it is not good enough so that I would consider it.

Jerry
Version 3 is obsolete. There havn't been any emulator/unpacking improvements since almost 2 years! V3 includes a "basic" dos virus heuristic and that's it. Building up a solid AV isn't done in a few weeks (even if newcomers in this business having a slightly different oppinion...) The next thing which i want to point out is don't expect miracles from the new version. We have added a lot of "freedom" for later usuage such as a topnotch script emulation, generic unpacking etc. However, even if the emulator is able to unpack almost all we will add static unpacking as well for keeping our trend as fast and reliable AV solution with a reasonable low amount of system resources usage. Those facts are difficult to "combine" but we'll do our best ;-)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16827000 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:11:55 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16824973 Jer03 : I am looking forward to the test with the new F-Prot. I hope it is significantly improved in the detection area, but at the present it is not good enough so that I would consider it.

Jerry]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16824973 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:23:39 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16824718 Mele20 : I agree....especially with Avira being free!

It surprises me how much McAfee and Bit Defender have dropped...especially their trojan detection. I would want BoClean for sure if I had either of those (or Norton).

F-Prot results are mostly worthless because the old version was used. I can't wait for the next on demand tests to see how F-Prot, with the Inspector now at the helm, does when the new version is tested. F-Prot has a valid official objection also to some of the samples used for the macro scanning to which IBK concedes. IBK says F-Prot version 4 does MUCH better than version 3 and that a comparison between the two is soon forthcoming.
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»www.ie7.com/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16824718 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:35:53 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16824589 GuruGuy : Their website shows 49.95 euro with a 10% discount....44.95

That is 57.61 US dollars per a euro converter to us dollars

Not worth it~!
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An antivirus MAY NOT FLAG files packed with strange runtime packers as supicious and just thanks to this win a test !]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16823923 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:24:25 EDT Re: Navigating to report http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16821741 dadkins : Not for me it wasn't.... it is NOW! ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16821741 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:21:56 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16821616 JTM1051 :
said by FiOS Dan See Profile :

Error 404 - File not found

The requested file could not be found. ...
If you clink on the link provided by SurfinGenie it will not work because AV-Comparative does not allow links to subpages as noted in paragraph at bottom of Comparative tests list/box:

"Please link ONLY to our main site www.av-comparatives.org and not to the other subpages.
It's forbidden to use/provide our test results/documents on other sites without our permission.
If you find anything on other sites, please inform the forum/site admin to remove it."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16821616 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:03:21 EDT Re: Navigating to report http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16821511 CajunTek :
said by dadkins See Profile :

Wasn't there a few minutes ago... Thanks Amy! :)
Was too... :o ;)
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:)
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said by FiOS Dan See Profile :

Error 404 - File not found

The requested file could not be found.

Please ensure that you are trying to access the correct URL. Only links to our main site are allowed.

If you have reached this error message from one of your "bookmarks" or "internet favourites" then please update the bookmark/favourite.
If you have reached this error message by following an out-of-date link from a web page then please inform the person responsible for that web page, so that the link may be corrected or removed.

:hmm:
Yeah, I get that too... But on the main page I can find this from the Comparatives link on the left:
11. On-demand comparative August 2006 Online results / PDF (Zip) / Report

The online results, PDF and report are all working links for me..
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The requested file could not be found.

Please ensure that you are trying to access the correct URL. Only links to our main site are allowed.

If you have reached this error message from one of your "bookmarks" or "internet favourites" then please update the bookmark/favourite.
If you have reached this error message by following an out-of-date link from a web page then please inform the person responsible for that web page, so that the link may be corrected or removed.

:hmm:
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16821342 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:18:59 EDT Re: VERY interesting latest AV Comparatives test http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16821318 SurfinGenie :
said by altermatt See Profile :

That's odd...when I go to that link (which is the main page), it says the latest one is still not available. Do you have a direct link to the test results?
»www.av-comparatives.org /seiten/ergebnisse_2006_08.php

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1.GDATA
2.AVIRA
3.FSecure
4.Kaspersky
5.NOD32

»www.av-comparatives.org/

EDIT: Sorry, the ranking I gave is slightly wrong. It was about 2AM here when I saw the results of the test and I completely missed Trustport being a little above NOD32 in the overall rankings.

No. 5 should read: Trustport AV
No. 6 should read: NOD32]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16820316 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:11:14 EDT