Anti-Virus Comparative February 2005 Copyright (c) by Andreas Clementi (www.av-comparatives.org) - Tested on Windows XP Professional SP2                                          
 
     
  Company     H+BEDV Datentechnik   Alwil Software   GriSoft     Softwin     Doctor Web     Frisk Software   Trend Micro     Kaspersky Labs   McAfee     ESET     Symantec     GeCAD Software   Sophos    
  Product     AntiVir Prof.   Avast! Prof.   AVG Professional   BitDefender Prof.+   Dr. Web     F-Prot Anti-Virus   Internet Security   KAV Personal   McAfee VirusScan   NOD32 Anti-Virus   Norton Anti-Virus   RAV Desktop   Sophos Anti-Virus  
  Program version     6.29.00.03     4.5.561     7.0.302     8.0.137     4.32b     3.16a     12.1.1014     5.0.227     9.0.10     2.12.3     11.0.1.3b     8.6.105     3.90.0    
  Engine / signature version     6.29.0.107     0505-2     265.8.5     7.00442     4.32b     3.16.2     7.500.1001 / 2.394.00   N/A     4.4.00 / 4426             1.992     70206d     8.11     2.28.3    
  Signature date (mm/dd/yyyy)     02/06/2005     02/05/2005     02/03/2005     02/06/2005     02/06/2005     02/05/2005     02/05/2005     02/06/2005     02/03/2005     02/05/2005     02/06/2005     02/02/2005     02/05/2005    
  Number of virus records             97.143     unknown      unknown              99.503             64.738          148.895     unknown           117.316           115.035     unknown     69.976           111.964           100.050    
  On-demand detection rate of dialers (*)    excellent      mediocre      high       mediocre       low       not present      not present      excellent       excellent      not present     excellent      excellent       high     
  On-demand detection of virus/malware  
  DOS viruses   233.929         221.124 94,53%         225.891 96,56%         214.482 91,69%         229.529 98,12%         225.771 96,51%        233.427 99,79%         222.444 95,09%         233.813 99,95%         233.802 99,95%         229.788 98,23%         232.193 99,26%         232.971 99,59%         227.818 97,39%  
  Windows viruses   17.411           13.339 76,61%           15.779 90,63%           14.195 81,53%           16.565 95,14%           15.732 90,36%          16.370 94,02%           15.029 86,32%           17.353 99,67%           17.337 99,57%           16.659 95,68%           17.356 99,68%           16.553 95,07%           15.886 91,24%  
  Macro viruses       32.649           32.502 99,55%           32.107 98,34%           32.376 99,16%           32.212 98,66%           32.615 99,90%          32.649 100%           32.549 99,69%           32.649 100%           32.648 ~100%           32.641 99,98%           32.639 99,97%           32.542 99,67%           32.536 99,65%  
  Script viruses         7.956             3.875 48,71%             4.527 56,90%             2.494 31,35%             6.078 76,40%             6.066 76,24%            6.956 87,43%             5.218 65,59%             7.789 97,90%             7.843 98,58%             5.364 67,42%             7.576 95,22%             7.074 88,91%             5.315 66,80%  
  Worms       18.153           16.391 90,29%           14.918 82,18%           16.382 90,24%           16.429 90,50%           17.000 93,65%          16.945 93,35%           16.026 88,28%           18.086 99,63%           18.083 99,61%           16.737 92,20%           17.965 98,96%           17.003 93,66%           15.029 82,79%  
  Backdoors       39.467           37.002 93,75%           31.693 80,30%           37.135 94,09%           35.760 90,61%           36.990 93,72%          34.337 87,00%           33.782 85,60%           39.323 99,64%           37.123 94,06%           37.785 95,74%           38.168 96,71%           30.338 76,87%           29.943 75,87%  
  Trojans       29.618           23.666 79,90%           20.889 70,53%           13.468 45,47%           22.464 75,85%           24.229 81,80%          22.456 75,82%           23.237 78,46%           29.208 98,62%           25.316 85,48%           25.115 84,80%           27.104 91,51%           21.799 73,60%           17.045 57,55%  
  other malware         5.085             3.181 62,56%             3.939 77,46%             1.353 26,61%             3.220 63,32%             3.357 66,02%            3.552 69,85%             3.383 66,53%             5.035 99,02%             4.661 91,66%             3.883 76,36%             4.829 94,97%             3.626 71,31%             3.003 59,06%  
  OtherOS malware         1.836                614 33,44%                890 48,47%                281 15,31%                767 41,78%                829 45,15%            1.202 65,47%                876 47,71%             1.487 80,99%             1.735 94,50%                774 42,16%             1.732 94,34%             1.228 66,88%             1.304 71,02%  
  TOTAL   386.104         351.694 91,09%         350.633 90,81%         332.166 86,03%         363.024 94,02%         362.589 93,91%        367.894 95,28%         352.544 91,31%         384.743 99,65%         378.548 98,04%         368.746 95,50%         379.562 98,31%         363.134 94,05%         347.879 90,10%  
  Total without DOS & OtherOS   150.339        129.956 86,4%        123.852 82,4%        117.403 78,1%        132.728 88,3%        135.989 90,5%        133.265 88,6%        129.224 86,0%        149.443 99,4%        143.011 95,1%        138.184 91,9%        145.637 96,9%        128.935 85,8%        118.757 79,0%  
         
 
  (*) = not present (0-5%), low (6-40%), mediocre (41-70%), high (71-95%), excellent (96-100%)
  Supposed remaining error level: ~0,06% in total. Last revision of the results: 27. February 2005
 
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