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July 1, 2006

Want to know that the best antivirus software is?

Filed under: News, Virus, Articles — SecuNews @ 11:25 am

We’re all wondering which antivirus is the best one to protect our servers.

The guys from Nephentes wondered the same thing and took the time to submit a sample of 4987 viruses to 14 antivirus softwares running on *nix platforms (some free some not).

The full study is here, but if you’re impatient here’s the summary:

Rank Product Hit Rate Trend
1 Antivir 99,04% +7,07%
2 BitDefender 96,23% +1,52%
3 VirusBlokAda 95,17% +1,42%
4 F-Prot 94,02% +2,39%
4 Authentium 94,02% new
5 Norman Virus Control 93,78% +1,19%
6 Fortinet 87,29% +2,35%
7 F-Secure Antivirus 85,22% +5,99%
8 Kaspersky 85,10% +5,73%
9 VirusBuster 82,53% +11,76%
10 Trend Micro 76,19% +5,14%
11 ClamAV 71,41% -0,85%
12 NOD32 70,06% +4,05%
13 Sophos SWEEP 68,58% +2,45%
14 eTrust 63,97% new

(Note: the ‘Trend’ percentage is the variation between the current test and the previous one)

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