AV-Comparatives November Report

Here's the monthly AV-Comparatives report for November. All the luminaries are there: Symantec, McAfee, Eset, AVIRA, Avast and Grisoft to name but a few...

On-Demand Scanning:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_08.php
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/report15.pdf


Retrospective/proactive scanning:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_11.php
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/report16.pdf

Lowlights:
NormanVirusControl only caught 2 of 12 polymorphic viruses, with AVAST and AVG next worst at 3 of 12. The honour of worst overall detection rates fell to Dr. Web (but it is beta).

Highlights:
At the top of the polymorphic threat spectrum were: G DATA, MicroWorld, F-Secure, Kaspersky, ESET and Symantec - all with 12 of 12. AVIRA, McAfee, Softwin, F-Prot and AEC were joint second with 11 of 12. Best overall detection rates were for AVIRA's AntiVir PE Premium (so this is THE AV to put on your copy of MiniPE ;-)


Very little has changed in the last 6 months, and still (for me) Nod32 provides the best balance between rock-solid protection and speed. I'm still puzzled as to how Symantec and McAfee score so high, when most of the infected systems I see are running them (if they are running AV at all, up-to-date or not).