Andreas Marx of AV-Test.org has completed his latest tests on AV engines. From his notes:We tested 29 products for the detection of most recently seen verified working Win32 PE malware of the last 12 month -- separated into the four categories backdoors, bots, trojan horses and worms.</blockquote>http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/latest-test-results-from-andreas-marx.html
Not bad 8th of 29 tested and avast with ‘no heuristics’ gained 96.32%
Products were set with their most aggressive detection options, such as using all heuristics and testing inside archives.http://www.appscout.com/2007/05/antivirus_shootout_in_magdebur.php
Limiting the list to products that we've reviewed in PC Magazine, the top scorer was Avira's Antivir, with 99% detection overall. F-Secure, Symantec, and Kaspersky all came close with 98% detection. Avast!, AVG, and BitDefender weren't far behind at 96%. From that point, though, scores start to trail off. Panda got 92%, Trend Micro got 91%, NOD32 88% and McAfee 87%. Microsoft's OneCare didn't come in dead last, as it did in an earlier test, but it only detected 81% of the threats.great news for avast!-it just keeps getting better and better ;D thanks for the info and links :)
Here is the full data set: Program # Detected Detection % WebWasher 605,846 99.83% AVK 2007 604,255 99.56% AntiVir 603,408 99.42% F-Secure 594,333 97.93% Symantec 593,355 97.77% Kaspersky 592,606 97.64% Fortinet 589,028 97.06% Avast! 584,574 96.32% AVG 583,541 96.15% Rising 582,772 96.02% BitDefender 580,700 95.68% Norman 574,476 94.66% Ikarus 561,607 92.54% Panda 558,899 92.09% Trend Micro 552,107 90.97% Nod32 536,043 88.32% McAfee 529,680 87.28% Dr Web 520,959 85.84% F-Prot 517,491 85.27% VBA32 498,264 82.10% Sophos 496,135 81.75% eSafe 495,074 81.57% Microsoft 488,942 80.56% Ewido 456,660 75.24% VirusBuster 441,341 72.72% Command 414,036 68.22% ClamAV 387,276 63.81% QuickHeal 382,557 63.03% eTrust-VET 376,983 62.12%96.32% not bad at all avast! ahead of AVG ;D
Congratulation Alwil Software ;D
Avast is above AVG but not by far, so keep up the good work 
Al968
Way to go avast team!!! 
But way above Nod32, very strange, but don’t forget this is just detection alone and doesn’t speak for flexibility, configuration and specific protection in certain areas, web shield, instant messaging, p2p, etc. which in some cases others don’t have.
Detections in isolation aren’t everything, support is another thing.