The rise of global anti-virus software competitions

 
According to foreign media reports, there was an interesting phenomenon in a recent global anti-virus software test competition. Some small unknown vendors are far ahead in Anti-Virus products, the lower the ranking.

Andreas Clementi, the owner of the independent assessment agency's Austrian website AV Comparatives, sponsored the test. AV Comparatives is a website that regularly publishes test results of independent anti-virus software. It is authoritative in this field.

In the test and evaluation conducted in February this year, kementti selected 17 Anti-Virus products, including BitDefender's Anti-Virus 10 Professional Plus, Fortinet's FortiClient 3.0.308, McAfee's McAfee VirusScan 11.1.124, and Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 14.0.0.89. During the test, these products were upgraded to the virus database in April February 2, and the best configuration was adopted. During the test, more than 1 million samples of known viruses were used to test the performance of various antivirus software vendors. However, the performance of well-known vendors was not satisfactory.

The first is the AntiVirusKit of G Data security, which can block 99.45% of the testing viruses.

The second is the AEC TrustPort Antivirus Workstation 2.5.0.957, with a blocking rate of up to 99.36%. Avira's Antivir Personal Edition Premium 7.3.0 1.34 can block 98.85%; f-Secure's Antivirus Kit can remove 97.91%; Kaspersky's anti-virus software ranks fifth, and the virus detection and removal rate is 97.89%.

Apparently, none of the world's top five security vendors have been tested. Symantec's product ranks sixth, with a virus scan rate of 96.83%. Fortinet ranks tenth, with a virus scan rate of 93.99%. McAfee ranks 14th, and a virus scan rate of 91.63%.

In addition, as the media concerned earlier, Microsoft's OneCare only allowed to eliminate 82.4% of the test viruses, ranking first among the 17 software programs. Microsoft said in a statement that it would use the test results to find and improve the deficiencies in the product. He said he was not surprised by the result. He said: "other independent testers have come up with similar results a few months ago. In addition, I have been paying attention to the latest developments of antivirus software vendors every week, so I have long foreseen such a result ."

AV Comparatives also compared the detection and removal capabilities of the 17 antivirus software against variant viruses. Symantec and ESET are the only two products that can eliminate all 12 variant viruses, microsoft ranks 12th in this evaluation.

Among the well-known anti-virus software vendors, Symantec performs very well and its products can reliably detect various forms of viruses. He also said: "generally, I only test products with a virus scan rate above 85%. I thought that Microsoft OneCare could meet this standard, but the result disappointed me. Whether Microsoft OneCare will participate in future tests remains to be further evaluated ."