Retrospective / ProActive - Test May 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    
  ProActive detection of ITW-samples*                                                                    
  In-The-Wild samples   51    0  0%                    2 4%    0  0%                  35 69%                  18 35%                 10 20%     6 12%                  18 35%                  11 22%   46 90%   4 8%                    1 2%                  19 37%  
  ProActive detection of "NEW" zoo-samples**  
  DOS viruses   7    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%                    6 86%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%  
  Windows viruses   50                    6 12%                    4 8%    0  0%                    6 12%                    5 10%                 10 20%                    4 8%                    6 12%                    4 8%                  16 32%                    9 18%    0  0%    0  0%  
  Macro viruses                3                    3 100%    0  0%    0  0%                    3 100%                    3 100%                   3 100%                    3 100%    0  0%                    3 100%                    3 100%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%  
  Script viruses              23    0  0%    0  0%                    1 4%                    5 22%                    3 13%    0  0%    0  0%                    4 17%                    9 39%    0  0%                    2 9%    0  0%    0  0%  
  Worms            693                  89 13%                  57 8%                  13 2%                310 45%                107 15%               141 20%                  56 8%                  86 12%                202 29%                484 70%                  71 10%                  71 10%                  61 9%  
  Backdoors         5.416                726 13%                735 14%                293 5%             3.478 64%             2.867 53%            1.216 22%             1.074 20%             3.791 70%             1.874 35%             4.726 87%             1.033 19%                600 11%             2.729 50%  
  Trojans         1.976                172 9%                  72 4%                    4 0%                278 14%                  74 4%               170 9%                  63 3%                107 5%                377 19%                550 28%                  55 3%                  17 1%                  21 1%  
  other malware              50    0  0%                    2 4%                    1 2%                    5 10%                    3 6%                   1 2%    0  0%    0  0%                    4 8%                    5 10%                    2 4%                    2 4%    0  0%  
  OtherOS malware              41                    1 2%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%    0  0%                    8 20%    0  0%                    1 2%    0  0%    0  0%  
  TOTAL   8.259                997 12%                870 11%                312 4%             4.085 49%             3.062 37%            1.541 19%             1.200 15%             4.000 48%             2.481 30%             5.784 70%             1.173 14%                690 8%             2.811 34%  
         
 
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NOTE: All products detects with updated signatures/programs most of the samples used in this test (and 100% of the ITW-samples) - Please update your scanner as often as possible in order to be protected!
* = new ITW-samples appeared during the 6. February and the 1. April
** = new zoo-samples received during the 6. February and the 6. May that were new to all tested scanners
This test shows the pure proactive detection capability that the scanners had 3 months ago with best possible settings. Detection failures in a retrospective test are not up for discussion.
To determine how good a scanner is in detecting zoo-samples on-demand in general with updated signatures, have a look on our February and August tests.
In order to have the highest available protection and proactive detection capabilities, keep your Anti-Virus always up-to-date.
The used programs/updates are 3 month old due the design of the retrospective test. This is a way to determine the proactive detection capability of the various scan engines.
Due this, the percentages are of course not so high like in the regular on-demand tests with up-to-date anti-virus scanners. Last revision of the data: 05/20/2005