AV‐C, AV‐TEST and VB comment on allegations of inappropriate behavior

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Testing bodies AV‐Comparatives, AV‐TEST and Virus Bulletin comment on allegations of inappropriate behavior
http://weblog.av-comparatives.org/?p=504
http://www.av-comparatives.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/VB-AVC-AVT-press-release.pdf

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Since the IObit episode i have been very skeptical to chinese programs

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At second thought I was sure it will be IOBit and maybe also the Chinese program. One of my university friend has got Qihoo 360 security program installed on his laptop. One thing I don’t understand is that why Qihoo 360 one of the four engines is provided by BitDefender ??? What has BitDefender got to do with Qihoo 360?

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On their website Qihoo 360 one of it’s features says this

Superior Threat Detection

Intergrating award winning antivirus engines from 360 Cloud Scan Engine, 360 QVMII AI Engine, Avira and Bitdefender to provide you with the ultimate in Virus detection and protection capabilities.

Keyword: Avira and BitDefender.

Can some one explain this to me. Now comes Avira along with BitDefender?

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Well, not surprised it was Qihoo as they upped their score rather quickly from the last test. Reminded me of another recent episode Pondus mentioned and wondered if they were doing the same thing.

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AV companies can license other AV engines, etc.

Read the article it goes to the whole crux of the matter. They licensed the Bitdefender engine and it was that variant of Qihoo 360 that was submitted for testing. The problem being regular users of Qihoo 360 didn’t have that engine and consequently had less protection and more FPs.

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WOW after having used many antivirus software this is the 1st time that I am hearing that AV Companies can licence other AV engines :o

So let me get this straight. Qihoo 360 wanted the 3 antivirus testing lab to test it’s own Qihoo 360 variant for analysis. So instead they sent the Bitdefender engine, because their own engine has less protection and more FPs and the BitDefender engine has more protection and less FPs

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WOW after having used many antivirus software this is the 1st time that I am hearing that AV Companies can licence other AV engines
Bitdefender is the most used AV engine

Lets see if you can guess who is using it ;D
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8dafb21e7d106a6c98f745f30c2577ee7b0984ec7ba2c4107f7ddcd0d127baf6/analysis/

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Holy sh*t!!! :o

Ok the answer to your question. Uh… let me guess. Is it BitDefender. So weird that only 4 antispyware didn’t catch it AegisLab ByteHero
Malwarebytes and SUPERAntiSpyware

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Because it is a file infector … MBAM and SAS dont target file infectors

Evryone you see detecting as. Trojan.Generic.7456886. Is using Bitdefender engine

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Well not surprised that BitDefender antivirus program is really doing well in Antivirus Test. Thanks for letting me know about this :slight_smile:

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If you can recall avast used to be licensed to GData, which used to use two scanning engines Avast and another, now BitDefender is one of the two engines.

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That one stuck out like a sore thumb.

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Qihoo ( English version ) has always used the Bitdefender engine along with it’s own in-house engine, it was only in a fairly recent update that they decided to include the Avira engine in the English version like they had been using in the Chinese model.

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Ouch!!! :cry:

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Oh I didn’t know that one at all and I don’t recall Avat used the GData. Was this prior to Avast 7. I started using Avast in the very first version of 7. So now Avast uses BitDefender and what other engine?

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I think you got it wrong :wink:
G Data used two engines - Avast and Bitdefender (and before that Avast and Kaspersky, and before that something else). Then they switched to their own engine, accompanied with Bitdefender.

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and Emsisoft use two, Bitdefender as B engine … seen as a (B) behind detection name
Norman safeground (not on VT) Use Bitdefender … the one you see on VT is the orginal Norman engine now owned by BlueCoat (will probably change name one day?)

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Qihoo 360 statement regarding cheating in lab test
http://blog.360totalsecurity.com/en/qihoo-360-statement-regarding-cheating-in-lab-test/

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Sounds like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck change, ‘duck’ to ‘BS’ and I think you have the answer to this response.

It would be interesting to know why they bothered getting licensing for another engine if they had no intention of enabling it by default on user systems. Many non tech users don’t even venture into settings.

This adding bloat and expense as the licensing of the bitdefender engine must relate to the number of users ???