How Good is Your Antivirus Program?
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Depending on which vendor you use, may not be as protected as you think. According to this article on the ClamAV website, only three vendors prevailed:
On August 8th at LinuxWorld, network gateway vendor Untangle performed an all-out public test of different anti-virus vendors to see how they really compare.
In an antivirus “fight club” conducted in front of an audience at the show, 10 antivirus products were confronted with 25 viruses, many submitted by members of the audience. The goal: to see whether the AV tools would catch ‘em all.
The “winners” in last night’s contest were ClamAV, Kaspersky and Symantec. All three tools caught 100 percent of the viruses they encountered. F-Prot and Sophos caught 94 percent; McAfee caught 89 percent; and GlobalHauri, Fortinet, and SonicWall caught 61 percent.
Being an Open Source advocate, I’m running ClamAV and while it’s no surprise, I’m glad to know that I’m well-protected.
Besides, you can’t beat the price and ClamAV doesn’t hog all my system resources.
Cheers!
The Geek
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4 Comments
shausha
August 13th, 2007
at 6:10pm
I saw that article too - it’s no surprise to me that Kaspersky was the best of that bunch but it left me wondering why they didn’t include Nod32 (aka Eset) in their challenge?
I too like ClamAV but I ahven’t looked at it recently and my one real gripe with it was the lack of on access scanning ability. They may have resolved that now.
Liquidsnake
August 13th, 2007
at 6:12pm
Wow, never thought Symantec would be in the top 3. Wonder if Panda Antivirus was tested, thought that was good.
Mike
August 14th, 2007
at 1:32pm
Thought I saw where AntiVir was also a solid performer..comments? thoughts?
thanks
Kenny
August 15th, 2007
at 3:45pm
shausha–I guess the guy picked his list and stuck with it. I would like to see the test repeated with all of the other antivirus programs he missed.
Liquidsnake–Symantec being in the top 3 didn’t surprise me. That is what all of our corporate clients run and we have very few malware incidents. Clam still doesn’t support real-time protection, I don’t think.
Mike–AntiVir is an excellent product. I used it for three years before I switched to AVG, then ClamWin.