It’s been the first time for Emsisoft Anti-Malware to participate at the Virus Bulletin VB100 comparative. They have tested Anti-Malware 5.0 Beta, which had some troubles during onAccess scan test, so VB decided to test only the scanner capabilities. Badly, it was not enough to get the VB100 award, but the detail test results are remarkable:

On demand scan:

• Wildlist: 99.95% (actually a bunch of virut replications were not detected)
• Worms & bots: 99.81% (rank 4 out of 60)
• Polymorphic viruses: 78.59%
• Trojans: 98.29%
• False positives: 1

Reactive and proactive (RAP) detection:

• week-3: 99.13%
• week-2: 99.42%
• week-1: 97.92%
• Reactive average: 98.72% (that’s the best score of all 60 tested products!)
• Proactive week+1: 71.30%
• Overall average: 91.87%

The MalwareResearchGroup has tested 15 well known antivirus products in April 2010. Objective of this test was to compare the on demand scanner capabilities of the participants with 259,694 malware samples that have been collected 60% in the last 3 months, and 40% in the 3 months before.

Here are the test results:

a-squared Anti-Malware and Online Armor ++ are sharing the first place and had exactly the same results. Which was expected, because both products are using the same scanner technology. Realtime analysis components like the behavior blocker of Anti-Malware had not been tested.

Check out the full report describing the test methodology in detail.