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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.

3 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. firewall by amclay · · Score: 0, Troll

    I use a firewall. Thats about it. It blocks unknown incoming traffic. Only stupid people get viruses anymore.

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    It's all fun and games till someone divides by 0. Then it's hilarious.
  2. fir5t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    locating #GnAA,

  3. Re:mine is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, I guess I'll be the one to kill the joke... His (or possibly her) custom anti-virus solution blocks everything, hence the part about not asking what the false positive rate is.

    Does it block lame, predictable jokes that weren't funny to begin with? Does it then block asshats like you who feel a need to explain the lame, predictable jokes that weren't funny to begin with? Come up with something like that and you'll be a success in this industry.