Symantec, 11 others, fail Virus Bulletin's August 2009 test

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Virus Bulletin has released its August 2009 test, this time for Windows Vista SP2 Business. Out of the 35 products tested, 11 of them failed.

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/08/symantec-11-others-fail-virus-bulletins-august-2009-test.ars

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Sophos past but PC Tools AV didnt? I thought PC Tools was using Sophos now. Congrats to Avast.

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it’s very good for Alwil team, congrats!!

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VB100 results summary: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?display=summary
Windows Vista SP2 Business Edition - August 2009 result: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/2009/08
Alwil Test Result Archive: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?vendor=VE9

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Cudos to the avast team for a great product.

Hope Avast 5 will continue (and if possible surpass) this tradition

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Congratulations :wink:

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Also my Congratulations as well :slight_smile:

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Keep up the good job. avast!

:slight_smile:

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Good work avast! team!

PC Tools using Sophos?? That’s one from the “wildlist”. ;D

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pctools is owned by norton now so i assume they would use their engine if anything.

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We are all proud of the results for avast! :slight_smile:

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Well Done Avast :wink:

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but, about VB100 test result there is one thing I’m thinking of, they just say “PASS” and “FAILD” and there is no difference their detection rate quality, for example now ESET, F-Secure, Alwil and Avira has win the test, but for sure Alwil is working better than something like F-Secure… I wish they could put result in a table with Order number depending on detection rate and performance impact and false positive and something such as… :slight_smile:

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Ok, Omid:
There is room for avast to improve. This test does not detect it.
avast had done a very good job (passing over the big boys). This test does detect it. :wink:

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Yes, and it’s why I say it need to show which one is better! because I want to show the opponents we are better!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJkta8tuu48
Smashing the oppopnents - Infected Mushroom [ft. Jonathan Davis]

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but, about VB100 test result there is one thing I'm thinking of, they just say "PASS" and "FAILD" and there is no difference their detection rate quality, for example now ESET, F-Secure, Alwil and Avira has win the test, but for sure Alwil is working better than something like F-Secure... I wish they could put result in a table with Order number depending on detection rate and performance impact and false positive and something such as... :)

I dont have vb test reviews but I have AV comparatives test reviews

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/09/av-comparatives-picks-seven-anti-malware-winners.ars