One more test win for a-squared Anti-Malware in MRG October test
The famous Malware Research Group has again tested 21 antivirus products to protect your PC in October 2009. Tested virus scanners had to find the enormous amount of 554,891 malware samples, split into the following categories:
Trojans/Backdoors: 398,951
Windows Viruses: 8,864
Worms: 61,928
Adware/Spyware: 48,552
Rootkits/Exploits: 10,736
Other Malware: 25,860
That ensures a representative mix of current malware types that is similar to a ”in-the-wild” malware mix. Test enviroment was a Windows XP machine with service pack 3. Here are the original test results:
| Programm | Erkennungsrate (%) |
| a-squared | 99.8% |
| Online Armor ++ | 99.8% |
| G Data | 99.6% |
| Avira | 99.5% |
| Ikarus | 99.4% |
| Panda | 98.9% |
| Norton | 98.8% |
| Avast | 98.7% |
| McAfee | 98.7% |
| BitDefender | 98.6% |
| eScan | 98.6% |
| F-Secure | 98.5% |
| Nod32 | 98.3% |
| Kaspersky | 98.2% |
| Comodo | 98.1% |
| AVG | 97.4% |
| F-Prot | 95.7% |
| Twister | 94.6% |
| Sophos | 94.4% |
| Norman | 93.2% |
| Spy Emergency |
66.5% |
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