14 DAY TRIAL // Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 emerged as top security solution out of a test session involving 50 rival anti-viral products. Performed throughout 15-25 August 2006 on an XP Professional SP1, the test involved the detection of 147,184 virus samples. "All programs tested had the latest versions, upgrades and updates and they were tested using their full scanning capabilities e.g. heuristics, full scan etc. The default settings of each program were not used, in order for each program to achieve its maximum detection rate. Because of this, there is a possibility for the tested programs to detect a few false positives," explained Virus.gr.
With a detection rate of 99.62%, Kaspersky proved to be the top anti-viral solution out of the plethora of products tested. Rounding up positions two and three were Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 with 99.62$ and F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 with 96.86%. BitDefender Professional version 9 occupies the fourth place with 96.63% while CyberScrub version 1.0 is fifth with 95.98%.
McAfee occupies the 13 and 14 position with McAfee version 10.0.27 - 93.03% and Enterprise version 8.0.0 - 91.76%, Norton Professional 2006 - 83.18% is 22nd, Panda 2007 version 2.00.01 - 82.23% is 25th, C-Cillin 2006 version 14.10.1051 - 80.90% is 27th and Sophos Sweep version 6.0.2 - 69.48% is 32nd. By comparison, the Cleaner version 4.2.4319 - 6.03%, the Hacker Eliminator version 1.2 - 1.70% and the Abacre version 1.4 - 0.00% close the ranking in the 56, 57 and 58 positions. "All virus samples were unpacked and the only samples that were kept were the ones that were packed using external-dos-packers (that means not WinZIP, WinRAR, WinAce etc)," further disclosed Virus.gr.
Based exclusively on heuristics methods of detection, Nod32 proved to be the most successful solution. "Heuristics-methods analyze the code of each file with generic methods and detect new viruses that have not yet been included in the virus database of the antivirus software," explained Virus.gr.