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1. All antivirus binary analysis results are provided via www.virustotal.com.

2. Each binary is submitted for evaluation within 24hrs of our harvesting it live from the Internet. Each antivirus tool is only given this one attempt to detect the binary. Our intention is to evaluate how the antivirus tools are performing against the latest malware on the Internet, at least from the narrow vantage point of our honeynet.

3. Please be aware that most antivirus vendors WILL be able to detect the malware binaries listed in the missed set, usually within a few days. Therefore you should not view an antivirus tool's missed binaries list as a reflection of its current detection coverage. Rather, it is only a list of binaries that were missed at the time of our evaluation.

4. Our detection rates represent the TRUE POSITIVE detection rates. The results do not take into consideration the false positive rate of a given tool, and thus a tool that declares everything to be infected would appear to have the highest true positive percentage rate.

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Fri Oct 2 08:57:56 2009

note: before I was in second place...

Missed = Malware binary miss count
Missed Logs = Full list of all missed malware binaries
Detects = Antivirus system overall detection rate based on exposure to 1155 malware binaries

Rank	Detects	Missed	Missed Log	Product	Vendor	CC	Product URL
1st	89%	125	AVG_Missed_MD5s.html	AVG	Grisoft Inc		www.grisoft.com
2nd	88%	129	Ikarus_Missed_MD5s.html	Ikarus	Ikarus Security Software		www.ikarus-software.at
3rd	88%	133	Microsoft_Missed_MD5s.html	Microsoft	Microsoft Corporation		www.microsoft.com
4th	88%	134	AntiVir_Missed_MD5s.html	AntiVir	Avira		www.free-av.com
5th	87%	149	Sophos_Missed_MD5s.html	Sophos	Sophos Labs		www.sophos.com
6th	87%	150	F-Prot_Missed_MD5s.html	F-Prot	Frisk Software International		www.f-prot.com
7th	86%	157	Authentium_Missed_MD5s.html	Authentium	Authentium		www.authentium.com
8th	86%	161	BitDefender_Missed_MD5s.html	BitDefender	BitDefender Inc		www.bitdefender.com
9th	86%	161	Kaspersky_Missed_MD5s.html	Kaspersky	Kaspersky Lab		www.kaspersky.com
10th	86%	162	DrWeb_Missed_MD5s.html	DrWeb	Dr. Web		www.drweb.com
11th	83%	191	F-Secure_Missed_MD5s.html	F-Secure	F-Secure Corporation		www.f-secure.com
12th	83%	194	Norman_Missed_MD5s.html	Norman	Norman Inc		www.norman.com
13th	81%	216	CAT-QuickHeal_Missed_MD5s.html	CAT-QuickHeal	Quick Heal Technologies		quickheal.co.in
14th	80%	223	eTrust-Vet_Missed_MD5s.html	eTrust-Vet	Computer Associates		www.ca.com
15th	80%	224	Symantec_Missed_MD5s.html	Symantec	Symantec Corporation		www.symantec.com
16th	80%	225	GData_Missed_MD5s.html	GData	G Data Software AG		www.gdata.be
17th	80%	227	TrendMicro_Missed_MD5s.html	TrendMicro	Trend Micro		www.trendmicro.com
18th	80%	227	VBA32_Missed_MD5s.html	VBA32	VirusBlokAda Ltd		www.anti-virus.by/en
19th	80%	229	VirusBuster_Missed_MD5s.html	VirusBuster	VirusBuster Ltd		www.virusbuster.hu
20th	80%	230	AhnLab-V3_Missed_MD5s.html	AhnLab-V3	AhnLab		www.ahnlab.com
21st	79%	234	Avast_Missed_MD5s.html	Avast	ALWIL Software		www.avast.com
22nd	78%	245	Fortinet_Missed_MD5s.html	Fortinet	Fortinet Inc		www.fortinet.com
23rd	78%	253	Rising_Missed_MD5s.html	Rising	Beijing Rising International Software		www.rising-global.com
24th	76%	269	McAfee_Missed_MD5s.html	McAfee	McAfee Inc		www.mcafee.com
25th	76%	277	ClamAV_Missed_MD5s.html	ClamAV	SourceFire		www.clamv.net
26th	76%	278	TheHacker_Missed_MD5s.html	TheHacker	Hacksoft		www.hacksoft.com.pe
27th	72%	318	Panda_Missed_MD5s.html	Panda	Panda Security		www.pandasecurity.com
28th	8%	1060	Ewido_Missed_MD5s.html	Ewido	Ewido Networks		www.ewido.net
29th	8%	1061	Webwasher-Gateway_Missed_MD5s.html	Webwasher-Gateway	Secure Computing		www.securecomputing.com
30th	7%	1072	NOD32v2_Missed_MD5s.html	NOD32v2	ESET LLC		www.eset.com

I use Avast (FREE!) and it performed better than McAfee, which cracks me up! It really shouldn't surprise anyone that MS did so well. Contrary to VGChartz popular opinion, they have a lot of really bright people that work for them.

bull list?
kaspersky, eset and bitdefender so low!?

AVG ftw, as always.

and kinda mesed up on the title there... "third besh"

I find it hard to believe that NOD32 only hit 7%. Still, it's good to know that when I tell people that McAfee is shit I'm not exagerating.

they don't. The people that got me a laptop for a gift also gave me a year of windows live onecare.

heres my rundown of the experience:

It was constantly coming up with false positives (flagging legit items as threats). (very annoying).

The product line was discontinued and the software went without updates for the remaining 3 months of my term. (not getting what was paid for) (no current protection).

Incredibly slow (it took 5 hours to go through both of my drives.... (120 gb x 2)).

None of the bonus utilities that came with it worked.

+ a bunch of other nitpicky issues that are too small to go into detail about.

* note: they may have made it into a good product since pissing me off.

Microsoft is such a big cooperation that naturally the amount of people that isn't satisfied is big aswell, but that doesn't mean it's any bigger then at other companies in percentages. And people who are satisfied don't need to go to forums to complain, so naturally the Microsoft hate seems larger then it really is. This goes more for other forums but in a small way it also counts for VGChartz.

I'll tell you this much...that Windows Live One Care is not great, not great at all.

I use AVG