Malware-Test Lab: 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

Antivirus Comparison Report (Jun 28, 2007)

Updated: July 5, 2007

In this report, the terminology, malware, includes virus, trojan, worm, backdoor, spyware, adware, dialer, keylogger, hack tool and so on. The samples we use are collected daily from Honeypot, the total malware count is 267,287, total file size is about 34,156 MB.

The following table shows detection rate and scan performance for antivirus software:

For detailed information, please refer to PDF file.

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All malware files’ SHA1 value.
All antivirus scan logs.

Note: This report is for reference only. Nowadays antivirus softwares have provided total protection for malware, but antivirus test organizations still use old test methodologies to evaluate them, they cannot reflect antivirus softwares' capabilities, so we will use other test methodologies to evaluate antivirus softwares in the future.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Antivirus Comparison Report (Feb 26, 2007)

Update: "New" to be added on March 2, 2007

Antivirus Detection Rate:

AVIRA Premium Security Suite 7.0: 95.09% New
Fortinet FortiClient Host Security 3.0: 94.70%
BitDefender Internet Security v10: 92.36%
AOL Active Virus Shield (Free): 89.02%
AVIRA AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic 7.0 (Free): 88.44%
GRISOFT AVG Internet Security 7.5: 88.37%
Norman Virus Control Plus 5.82: 86.64% New
BitDefender 8 Free Edition (Free): 86.52%
Rising Antivirus 2007: 84.78%
Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0: 84.77%
Panda Internet Security 2007: 79.16%
MicroWorld eScan Internet Security 8.0: 77.68%
ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.90 (Free): 76.57%
Sunbelt CounterSpy V2: 76.39%
ALWIL avast Professional 4.7: 73.41%
F-Prot Antivirus 3.16f: 72.75%
Filseclab Twister Anti-TrojanVirus V7: 62.66%
Trend Micro Internet Security 2007: 60.53%
CA Internet Security 2007: 58.61%
AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2007 Platinum: 56.44%
Kingsoft Internet Security 2007: 55.55%
ESET NOD32 2.7: 49.17%
Jiangmin Antivirus KV 2007: 45.16%
Webroot Spy Sweeper with Antivirus: 40.71%
CAT Quick Heal Total Security 2006: 37.29%
Hauri Virobot Desktop 5.0: 34.38%
Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 1.5: 12.68% New
Comodo Antivirus 1.1 (Free): 9.92%

For detailed information, please refer to PDF file.

Note:

some antivirus softwares are not listed above because they causes some problems, so that we cannot continue to test them, please refer to detailed information.
Because three antivirus softwares are added into this report, so that the ranking produces the changes, but in original report, Fortinet FortiClient is ranked No. 1. In the future, we will use Ghost software to make sure update schedule is at the same day.

Antivirus Comparison Report (Dec 11, 2006)

Antivirus Detection Rate:

Fortinet FortiClient Host Security 3.0: 94.33%
GRISOFT AVG Internet Security 7.5: 92.75%
Dr.Web Antivirus 4.33: 87.44%
AVIRA AntiVir ProfessionalEdition 7.0: 87.01%
Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0: 83.45%
Rising Antivirus 2006: 82.40%
ALWIL avast Professional 4.7: 79.16%
MicroWorld eScan Internet Security 8.0: 76.31%
Panda Internet Security 2007: 72.45%
McAfee Internet Security 2007: 71.55%
Microsoft Windows Live OneCare: 70.41%
Symantec Internet Security 2007: 69.96%
F-Secure Internet Security 2007: 57.89%
CA Internet Security 2007: 55.74%
AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2007: 53.78%
Trend Micro Internet Security 2007: 53.71%
ESET NOD32 2.5: 49.51%
Kingsoft Internet Security 2007: 47.21%

For detailed information, please refer to PDF file.

Note that some antivirus softwares are not listed above because they causes some problems, so that we cannot continue to test them, please refer to detailed information.

Antispyware Comparison Report (January 3, 2007)

Antispyware Detection Rate:

BitDefender Internet Security v10: 94.85%
ESET NOD32 2.7: 89.12%
Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0: 88.86%
Grisoft AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5 (ewido anti-spyware 4.0): 88.50%
Alwil avast! 4.7 Home Edition (free): 84.47%
Norman Virus Control 5.82: 79.41%
Rising Antivirus 2006: 69.11%
F-Secure Internet Security 2007: 68.20%
Sunbelt CounterSpy 1.5: 67.51%
Panda Internet Security 2007: 65.79%
Spyware Terminator 1.5 (with WinClamAV 1.1): 65.57%
AVIRA AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic 7.0 (free): 57.57%
Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007: 49.18%
EMSISoftware a-square free 2.1 (free): 40.61%
McAfee Internet Security 2007: 38.35%
Microsoft Windows Defender 1.1 (free): 33.88%
ZoneAlarm Security Suite 6.5: 32.12%
PC Tools Spyware Doctor 4.0: 31.70%
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.5: 28.30%
SUPERAntiSpyware 3.4: 23.75%
AhnLab SpyZero 2007: 23.45%
Comodo AntiVirus 1.1 (free): 17.57%
Webroot Spy Sweeper 5.2: 16.51%
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2007: 13.33%
Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal (free): 12.42%
CA Internet Security 2007 (antispyware part only): 9.92%
CyberDefender AntiSpyware 2006: 3.08%
Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0: 0.93%
Tenebril SpyCatcher Express 4.0 (free): 0.52%
TrojanHunter 4.6: 0.00%

For detailed information, please refer to PDF file.

Note that spyware samples in this round is collected from Honeynet.