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Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now
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.
I'm surprised MalwareBytes isn't on the list. We've come to depend on it for removing zlob from problematic PCs.
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It's worth pointing out that when you take false positives into account Eset Nod32 becomes the only AV solution to achieve the "Advanced+" rating. Apparently it detects 20% fewer "unknown" threats but had only 7 false positives, compared with 17 for AntiVir. This places AntiVir in the same category ("Advanced") as Kaspersky, Mircosoft, Symantec, McAfee, and GData. Hopefully people bother to read the TFA, and not just this /. article
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Try NOD32. The scanner that actually got top ratings in this test, for finding the highest number of viri without ungodly number of false positives. I've used it for a few years, and it's fast and has a good track record on virus tests. Can't recommend enough.
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This one comment demonstrates why the entire article is bogus. Thanks.
If you actually read the fine article it goes on to note Avira's high rate of false positives and recommends NOD32 instead.
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