Best Antivirus 2010

This is the Best Antivirus 2010 - AV-Comparatives at the end of 2009 it issued the results of new tests. This time is the Proactive / retrospective test, which is the last test in 2009. This test complements the previous test.

What is Proactive test and how antivirus test results?

Briefly, the Proactive / retrospective test is a test for viruses (malware) which is not known (not contained in the database).
Antivirus test this time using the same version and the previous test, and all antivirus products are updated on August 10, 2009. While Malware (virus) that is used is taken from new viruses that appear between 11 to August 17, 2009 with a total of 23,237 malware (worms, backdoors, trojans and viruses).
This is the uniqueness Proactive test, where the antiviral is used to test new antiviral that has not contained in list database. Thus Antivirus typically use a deeper detection of behavior file / virus. And it is fair if the result is pretty much undetectable.


Antivirus and version that is included in this test are:

* Avast! Professional Edition 4.8.1384
* AVG Anti-Virus 8.5.406
* Avira Antivir Premium 9.0.0.446
* BitDefender Anti-Virus 13.0.13.254
* EScan Anti-Virus 10.0.997.491
* ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0.437.0
* F-Secure Anti-Virus 10.00.246
* G DATA Antivirus 20.0.4.9
* Kaspersky Anti-Virus 9.0.0.463
* Kingsoft Antivirus 2009.08.05.06
* McAfee VirusScan Plus 13:11:02
* Microsoft Live OneCare 2.5.2900.28
* Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7:10:02
* Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6.10
* Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 17.0.0.136
* TrustPort Antivirus 2.8.0.3017

TEST RESULTS

Slightly different from the previous test, this time the most widely detected antivirus is Avira, then G-DATA. More can be seen as follows:

Best Antivirus 2010


Avira 74%
66% G DATA
Kaspersky 64%
60% ESET NOD32
56% F-Secure, Microsoft
53% Avast, BitDefender, eScan
49% AVG, TrustPort
47% McAfee
36% of Symantec
34% Sophos
32% Norman, Kingsoft


Even so, the AV-Comparatives in rank also use the number of errors to detect files which are not viruses.