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Large scale test of AV Art 11-29-2006
Posted by Art on November 29, 2006, 8:35 am
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The November test by AV-Test.org for PC Welt (in German):
http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=20&pk=64946
is surprising and confusing (to me) since the English translations
leave much to be desired, and I have no idea how the tests
were conducted. Perhaps someone can translate better and
expand on the nature of the tests.

Apparently, 83,000 worms, 86,000 Bots, 218,000 Trojans, and
79,000 Backdoors were used in this large scale test. I don't
understand what they mean by "zwischendurch" which translates
as "occasionally" or "now and then" or "here and there" or
"in the meantime" or "in between" (adv).

The surprise (to me) is that WebWasher scored tops, followed
by AntiVir, AVK2007 (no surprise that this one is up there),
Fortinet, AVK2006, Symantec, Kaspersky, F-Secure, Bitdefender,
Norman, Avast, NOD32, AVG, McAfee, Ikarus, Trend Micro,
Dr Web, Panda .... Using K-Meleon, clicking on the image of
results on that page yields a large pic image of the summary
of results.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

Posted by Clive on November 29, 2006, 8:54 am
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Art wrote:

> The November test by AV-Test.org for PC Welt (in German):
> http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=20&pk=64946
> is surprising and confusing (to me) since the English translations
> leave much to be desired, and I have no idea how the tests
> were conducted. Perhaps someone can translate better and
> expand on the nature of the tests.
>
> Apparently, 83,000 worms, 86,000 Bots, 218,000 Trojans, and
> 79,000 Backdoors were used in this large scale test. I don't
> understand what they mean by "zwischendurch" which translates
> as "occasionally" or "now and then" or "here and there" or
> "in the meantime" or "in between" (adv).
>
> The surprise (to me) is that WebWasher scored tops, followed
> by AntiVir, AVK2007 (no surprise that this one is up there),
> Fortinet, AVK2006, Symantec, Kaspersky, F-Secure, Bitdefender,
> Norman, Avast, NOD32, AVG, McAfee, Ikarus, Trend Micro,
> Dr Web, Panda .... Using K-Meleon, clicking on the image of
> results on that page yields a large pic image of the summary
> of results.
>
> Art
> http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

Webwasher - that IS a surprise.

I've just changed from NOD32 (v2.7) to Antivir - :-)

Clive


Posted by hardofhearing on November 29, 2006, 10:24 am
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> I've just changed from NOD32 (v2.7) to Antivir - :-)

Out of interest, why was that?



Posted by Slarty on November 29, 2006, 1:04 pm
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:24:32 -0000, hardofhearing wrote:

>> I've just changed from NOD32 (v2.7) to Antivir - :-)
>
> Out of interest, why was that?

Because it's free?

False economy if so.

Posted by Art on November 29, 2006, 1:15 pm
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:04:10 +0000, Slarty

>On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:24:32 -0000, hardofhearing wrote:
>
>>> I've just changed from NOD32 (v2.7) to Antivir - :-)
>>
>> Out of interest, why was that?
>
>Because it's free?
>
>False economy if so.

How so if AntiVir tests so much better?

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

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