AV-Comparatives New Test (August 2009)

AV-C released today the new test. Surpriced that nobody posted the test! but the forum is a little nohelic these days especially the beta corner!
the PDF can be found on http://www.av-comparatives.org/
cannot link to the PDF due to AV-C restrictions, it can be found under Comparative Reviews - Main Tests.

Avast 4.8 scored very high as always with 5 false positives, gaining the Advanced+ award. It was also the fastest in Scanning speed without transient technologies by other contenters, just pure speed.
Surpriced by McAffee that scored high this time but with Artemis (in the cloud) enabled. Also Symantec was expected to be high along with Avira. FSecure seems to be finding its way again. GData has reduced the number of False positives and it was the top of the contenders in terms of Detection but no wonder since it uses the avast engine 8) along with BD engine which scored high as well.

Looking forward to seeing avast 5 scoring a 99.9% in the next test!

Was surprised to see that avira was not no.1 this time.

lolz!! im sure avast 5 will definitely be more greater and superior than avast 4.8… avast team should not let us down ;D

Well done Alwil.
Probably cause for a few after work drinks, perhaps?
I know that the “rankings” move around a bit from quarter to quarter. What impresses me is that Avast always ranks quite well, and sometimes (as in this case) very well indeed.

Nice to hear it :smiley:

I wish the next release will give us that power :wink:

Yes, great news for us avast nerds! :slight_smile:

Keep up the good work Alwil guys!

avast 4.8 beat most of AVs with heuristics in detections. Now, what else if avast 5 gets into some comparatives. BOOM. Major reshuffle for Avira & GData. :grin:

lol we will alway see Avast! and G-Data as the best Anti Virus and Suite when version 5 is out for sure. ;D

Avira found 21,000 more detections, but had 16 more FP’s.

eh? so what’s up for the quoted phrase?

There’s a blog post :slight_smile:

avast! blog >> Did Avast win the latest AV-Comparatives?

Yes, a very good set of results this time round.

Also they did make a fault because its 1351 no 1348 lol.

Also Tarq his self did not update his signature for say 1351 instead of 1335 lol.

Wake up guys and girls.

Dont sleep. ;D

Mr.Agent

The number is correct - that’s the build that was tested.

I dont see any 1348 in your VPS Version History… ???

Wasn’t it a beta for the latest version?

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=47445.0

Maybe that explain all. Thank Scott.

Why would av comparative test a beta version?

We aren’t talking about AV-Comparatives but Tarq’s signature saying he is using that version and we think that it is incorrect.

I was talking about AV-Comparative. For 1348.

Tarq did not update his signature or program as he say 1335 in his signature…

Mr.Agent