The Best Antivirus in 2008
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A new year... A new beginning... And the inevitable security solution smackdown. In this context, AV-Test has thrown together in the same arena no less than 24 antivirus products from the heavyweights of the security market.
The security solutions were tested against in excess of 1 million malware samples from the last six months. According to Av-Test's Andreas Marx, the test involved only the top of the line, "'best' available Security Suite edition" from each vendor, last updated on January 7, 2008, and running on Windows XP SP2. And yes Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare 2.0 was tested, but no, it's not the best antivirus of 2008. Well, of the beginning of 2008, anyway...
"First, we checked the signature-based on-demand detection of all products against more than 1 Mio. samples we've found spreading or which were distributed during the last six months (this means, we have not used any 'historic' samples.) We included all malware categories in the test: Trojan Horses, backdoors, bots, worm and viruses. Instead of just presenting the results, we have ranked the product this time, from 'very good' (++) if the scanner detected more than 98% of the samples to 'poor' (--) when less than 85% of the malware was detected," Marx revealed.
In terms of signature-based on-demand detection, Windows Live OneCare 2.0 held its own. Microsoft's security solution ended up detecting a total of 992,880 out of all the malware samples thrown against it, and accounting for a "Signature Detection" rate of 96.9%. This is nothing short of an excellent score for Windows Live OneCare, an antivirus that at the beginning of 2007 managed to occupy positions only towards the bottom of the security solution pack in early 2007. In the latest AV-Test "Signature Detection" test OneCare 2.0 came on top of F-Prot (986,961 96.3%), Panda (979,409 95.6%), McAfee (959,919 93.7%) and Nod32 (953,936 93.1%).
However, OneCare 2.0 was bested by the likes of AVK 2008 (1,022,418 99.8%); AntiVir (1,020,627 99.6%); Avast! (1,018,204 99.4%); Trend Micro (1,009,662 98.6%); Symantec (1,006,849 98.3%); AVG (1,005,006 98.1%); BitDefender (1,003,902 98.0%); Kaspersky (1,003,470 98.0%); Sophos (1,001,655 97.8%) and F-Secure (999,806 97.6%). The complete results of the "Signature Detection" test from AV-Test can be accessed here, courtesy of Sunbelt Software.
"Secondly, we checked the number of false positives of the products have generated during a scan of 65,000 known clean files. Only products with no false positives received a 'very good' (++) rating. In case of the proactive detection category, we have not only focussed on signature- and heuristic-based proactive detection only (based on a retrospective test approach with a one week old scanner). Instead of this, we also checked the quality of the included behavior based guard (e.g. Deepguard in case of F-Secure and TruPrevent in case of Panda). We used 3,500 samples for the retrospective test as well as 20 active samples for the test of the 'Dynamic Detection' (and blocking) of malware," Marx added.
Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is among the few security solutions that have scored a ++ in the test for False Positives. This means that OneCare 2.0 has generated no false positives, a task also completed by the security solutions from Symantec, Nod32, and Fortinet. However, OneCare 2.0 was ranked as having only a poor proactive detection, and a very poor response time to new malware being issued (more than 8 hours). But at the same time, out of all the malicious code it had to go through, OneCare 2,0 only missed two rootkits. The Anti-virus comparison test of current anti-malware products, Q1/2008 can be accessed here.
"Furthermore, we checked how long AV companies usually need to react in case of new, widespread malware (read: outbreaks), based on 55 different samples from the entire year 2007. 'Very good' (++) AV product developers should be able to react within less than two hours. Another interesting test was the detection of active rootkit samples. While it's trivial for a scanner to detect inactive rootkits using a signature, it can be really tricky to detect this nasty malware when they are active and hidden. We checked the scanner's detection against 12 active rootkits," Marx said.
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Comments(48)
why is this article named the best antivirus in 2008?
all it's saying is how much
one care has improved. more like an advertisement.
i fully agree with sone. except onc care there is nothing.
no ads plz
and again...no eset in the test....what a joke this article....there was nothing usefull
at all.
nod32 is shit, do you know, that nod's development team is working in one flat? so there
is small amout of people, nod32 is good in synthetic test, but in real live, i had nod for
3 months and i had 3 trojans with it, now i moved to avast!, which is free and my computer
is clean. i am not saying, that avast is the best, but it is better then poor nod...
"nod32 (953,936 93.1%)" apparently some users around here cannot read...
kaspersky internet security is the best for me
for those that think node32 is crap i suggest you go look at these test results...
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_08.php
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_11.php
also, nod32 according to this independant comparisons is the av of the year for 2006 and
2007...
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/overview.html
gyrxiur writes:"i had nod for 3 months and i had 3 trojans with it"
you're
kidding right..?? you must be downloading from the gay "backdoor" sites. you should not
be allowed near a computer..
linux. ubuntu is a good choice.
i agree that nod32 is more hype than performance. i used it and yes, avast is better and
so is antivir. but a group of nod fanboys can't take a difference in opinions and choose
to throw disparaging remarks at anyone that isn't giving nod oral! as soon as someone
says something that is unflattering towards nod, several numb nutts take it personally.
get over it, nod is not the worst av, but neither is it the best.
nod32 and kaspersky rock, they're the best! the worst piece of crap are products like
norton/symantec! there's no perfect anti-virus but those two perform really well.
i used the shit and got infected the day after i installed it! why are you using
comparatives from 2007 and 2006, it's 2008 you jackass! nod blows chunks, stop being a
bitch to an av.
holy shit.. 2008 already.. we are one month in dumbass... if you would stay off the child
pron sites and buy a version of nod32 instead of using a "warez" version that probably
came with a virus in the crack then you would know. why is 2006 and 2007 used, it is
called a trend but your dumbass does not understand trends nor how to do an analysis. and
when you can use the english language instead of your :i'm so cool i can cuss" language
then come back... gruw up...
antivir ! its free ! never had a problem with that baby running. 1st thing i do is remove
other anti-virus shite & install that. problem solved.
nobody gives a rats ass about your convoluted trend analyzing bullshit. what people care
about is what is best now, not six months ago and definitely not 2 years ago. nod is not
the best now and probably not in the top 10!
i had been using avg free and pro for years and never felt the need to look elsewhere
'cause it did the job .
many people with avg have been gettig boot sector virus's ,
me included .
avg recently told me i had a trojan in my system 32 files but wouldnt
do anything about it because avg saw it as a system file .the continual warnings were
giving me the shits big time so i tried antivir . it gives you more options when it finds
a nasty and fixed my system 32 trojan . it also lets you do quick boot sector scans and is
much more configurable than avg . it even checks for rootkits . i love it , its bloody
brill .
trend micro works fast, detects 98.6%, good option to manage other computers in your
subnet. three licenses included. do i need to say more? :-)
another numb and useless "asset" of "competitive disadvantage" in terms of "money".
tantan fooler than fools lol
it is accepted to society the one who lacks analysis, and full of irrational complaints,
thus uneducated.
baba, kindly send yourself to school.
for thos of u that think nod32 is crap, you must be running a illegal or cracked version.
i have been using nod for for over 2 years without a problem. i repair computers for a
living and have used and sold every antivirus out there and it has out performed all of
them. i suggest you buy the full version and make sure that it is updated and set up the
scheduler.
you must scan your system on a regular basis to make sure that nothing
has infected you. no scanning no finding!!
lol, tech1955, i fix computers for a living too, i work for myself, and guess what? i
don't even have an antivirus, if i did it'd only be on once a month. i don't have any
viruses and my computer here runs like a dream, and the other three on the network do too,
along with two laptops. i'm on this site because i refer av to my clients. my activities
don't consist of entirely legit activities either. if you were truly in the know about
your computer and the viruses it contracts, you'd know how to prevent them. also, how do
you know it's out performed them all? ran tests yourself? heard something from someone
who said someone said something about how her/his av wouldn't fix her computer? ran a
survey that consisted of "is nod great? - y/n"? shot. how would an illegal or cracked
version hinder its effectiveness anyway? as long as the definition was up to date you'd
be as good as any other nod user.
i agree with aim. i get tired of people proclaiming nod, the undisputed "king of
antiviruses." i used a legitimate version (not cracked, though that shouldn't matter if
it is updated), and still got a virus that i had to get little old free, poor
detection-having avg to remove! say what you want about antiviruses, but nod is not the
best, face it!
i used eset to my operating system is protected in latest virus...... if you had many
virus in your p.c... just reformat it.....
activate trial version use it for a month and format again activate n use stay cooool.
don't care about the best.
95-98 percentage nod32 and kaspersky etc both have
some unique differance.
i say to hell with anti virus avg is free but i myself use deepfreeze you cant stop virus
but with deepfreeze theres no need to you will never get a virus and if you do just
restart the computer and gone not just moved to another part of the hard drive
avast is shit and couldn't find a virus even if it was sponsored by avg. trend is also
shit - sif 2008 version is fast wat a resource hog. you lie to yourself because you hug
your own balls to sleep at night.
i have run the nod32 for 3 years now and never had a trojan or virus that nod missed.
runs smooth with vista ultimate also. so i say nod32 rocks. kaspersky by all means
but....nod32 keeps my pc clean and healty
eset nod32 is actually the antivirus of year for 2007.
www.av-comparatives.org
- the same place where this article's information comes from.
there can be no
winner for 2008 yet since the year just begun.
stop arguing. freeze your drive. use deepfreeze. hehehe. that is the best antivirus! lol
microsoft made some new very best again. in the av field now!
thanks m$, we
were nothing without you...
avira lolavira lolavira lolavira lolavira lol
allah is great!
if you like 20 - 30 % false positive yes the top av list is ok. if you want real results
non of them. onecare 2.0 possible scan inside all exe packed pe files. the rest simply
list files with non recognized exe packer as viruses.
i don't use an antivirus at all. a good basic knowledge about the default windows files
in all folders and a monitoring tool to everything below %windir%, a hexdump backup from
the first parts of each hd together with a nat. software firewall on the old first pc on
unix which is connected before my workstation windows pc. is better as every av. if there
will be something new unknown come, i can guess what it is.
best antivirus is an old pc in front on another os.
please help me , i register a few weeks ago,but i can not log in my account , because i
did not received a email to actived my account. thank u from nkenji
these guys have not test the test with eset nod32 antivirus 3.0 they have test from the
early version and for avast and avira they have produced a lot of false psitives which is
why users thing the detect other don't many guys think when they scan with nod32 they
cant didn't anything and the try avast or avira and they find 2 or 3 but this is actually
false postives to fool the people to buy their products
avg pro is the bet for me...
it's so easy to use and update...
and less memory
usage when scanning the computer...
avg pro is the bet for me...
it's so easy to use and update...
and less memory
usage when scanning the computer...
i was use the nod 32 2.57 version it was very great for my pc so i sy all of you to use
this version thankyou.
reading this thread from top to bottom i can be sure of the following.
fact: 4
different people have gotten viruses with nod32 on their machines.
fact:the same 2
nimrods keep saying the same thing many times in favor of nod32.
fact: i will never
use nod32!
i've used kaspersky internet security for years. i have tried avk, avast, eset &
bitdefender. i've liked them all, especially avk since it uses 2 engines(kaspersky &
bitdefender), you really feel protected but the footprint is obviously a lil larger.
anyways, i always wind up going back to kis. it uses less resources & im comfortable using
the settings. i especially like how it blocks floating/banners & scripts automatically.
you dont have to go searching around for this & that setting. you want to open ports or
give permission to progz..just set to training mode & you're good to go.
okay,
i've said enough :)
avast is the best
kiss all the way.
i am using kaspersky7.0... since dec 2007 and i found it is better then other antivirus
softwares. i suggest everyone must check it once and see the difference.
and i almost bookmarked this site
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