Anti-Virus software for home users

Here is a list of some well-known Anti-Virus software. The ~30 products on this list are potential candidates for the tests of AV-Comparatives (either for the big tests and/or for the separate tests).

In the big tests we include only about 16-18 of the most well-known, high-quality anti-virus products which fulfill our minimum requirements (e.g. not too many false alarms or crashes, etc.) for inclusion and which vendors agree to participate in our tests. Please note that products which are tested by us and are able to get the STANDARD certification are in fact already good products, as they showed to provide good protection against a wide range of malware. Getting ADVANCED and ADVANCED+ is of course a bit even more difficult.

1

ArcaVir

scored under 85% (02/2007) - may get included in future

2

Avast (Alwil)

is included in the tests of 2008

3

AVG (Grisoft)

is included in the tests of 2008

4

AVIRA (AntiVir)

is included in the tests of 2008

5

BitDefender

is included in the tests of 2008

6

CA (VET)

scored under 85% (03/2007) - may get included in future

7

CounterSpy (Sunbelt)

will be tested separatly and may get included in future

8

Dr.Web

was included in the tests of 2007

9

eScan

is included in the tests of 2008

10

ESET (NOD32)

is included in the tests of 2008

11

Fortinet

was included in the tests of 2007

12

F-Prot

may be reincluded (or tested separatly) in future

13

F-Secure

is included in the tests of 2008

14

GDATA (AVK)

is included in the tests of 2008

15

IKARUS

was tested separatly(03/2008)

16

K7

may be tested separatly in future

17

Kaspersky

is included in the tests of 2008

18

Kingsoft

may be tested separatly in future

19

McAfee

is included in the tests of 2008

20

Microsoft

is included in the tests of 2008

21

Norman

is included in the tests of 2008

22

Panda

may be tested separatly/internally and may get included in future

23

PC Tools

will be tested separatly and may get included in future

24

Rising

scored under 85% (02/2007) – may get included in future

25

Sophos

is included in the tests of 2008

26

Symantec (Norton)

is included in the tests of 2008

27

TrendMicro

may be tested separatly in 2008 and will be included in future

28

TrustPort

is included in the tests of 2008

29

VBA32

is included in the tests of 2008

30

VirusBuster

scored about 87% (02/2008) – may get included in future

Also other products are already (or may get tested by) AV-Comparatives. There are also some other anti-virus products available, but many of them are mainly just using the (actual or old) engine of other vendors which are already included in the list above.