04 Dec 08 Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now
KingofGnG writes "AV-Comparatives, the Austrian team of experts dedicated to antivirus tests acknowledged as a reference point in the field, has published the second part of the mid-year comparative, an ideal addendum to the one already released in the past September. This time the aim is to evaluate the antimalware tools effectiveness against unknown threats, in a test scenario meant to prove the heuristic part and the generic markers of the on-demand scanning engines." The best in show (of 16 anti-malware packages evaluated), Avira AntiVir was able to find 71% of the unkown malware it was exposed to in the first week, dropping to 67% after the fourth.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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19 Dec 09 AV-Comparatives Tests Anti-Malware Suites
First there was AV-Test.org's suite. Now AV-Comparatives.org, another real-world test house, has run 15 popular anti-malware test suites through its battery of real-world examinations. Good news: one popular suite emerged as the winner of both tests.Tagi: test house, av comparatives, world test, test suites, real world
