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Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now

Posted by timothy on from the evolving-bleakosystem dept.

KingofGnG writes "AV-Comparatives, the Austrian team of experts dedicated to antivirus tests acknowledged as a reference point in the field, has published the second part of the mid-year comparative, an ideal addendum to the one already released last September. This time the aim is to evaluate the antimalware tools' effectiveness against unknown threats in a test scenario meant to prove the heuristic part and the generic markers of the on-demand scanning engines." The best in show (of 16 anti-malware packages evaluated), Avira AntiVir was able to find 71% of the unknown malware it was exposed to in the first week, dropping to 67% after the fourth.

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  1. mine is better by SoupGuru · · Score: 4, Funny

    My custom anti-virus solution is better. It blocks 100% of all known and unknown viruses. Just don't ask what its false positive rate is...

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    1. Re:mine is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      My custom anti-virus solution is better. It blocks 100% of all known and unknown viruses. Just don't ask what its false positive rate is...

      Sounds like my sex life: My anti-STD solution is great. It blocks 100% of all known and unknown STD's. Just don't ask what my human-to-human sexual encounter rate is... :(

    2. Re:mine is better by Smidge207 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just don't ask what my human-to-human sexual encounter rate is...

      Fair enough, but I am curious as to what your human-to-dog sexual encounter rate is?

      What? It's a fair question, he left it wide open to interpretation.

      =Smidge=

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    3. Re:mine is better by sveard · · Score: 3, Funny

      human-to-dog sexual encounter [...] Had that happen to me in Canada at a balmy -30 Celsius.

      Yikes!

  2. Re:Direct Link to results by girlintraining · · Score: 2, Funny

    The site seems to block direct linking...and gives you a 404. Now that's fucking stupid.

    I second that motion. Let bombing begin in 10 minutes.

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  3. I can do 100% by gsgriffin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know, my computer has never had a virus and never will. This TRS-80 Model I Level II runs like a dream. Just have to get the hang of loading and saving programs with the tape cassette player/recorder.

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  4. Re:TFA paints a more complete picture by street+struttin' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why read the article? You just told us what we'd miss if we didn't.