VIRUS BULLETIN TEST RESULTS OCT 2009, AVIRA FAILS

Virus Bulletin test results has been pulished for oct 2009. More than 26 antivirus software has been tested.Among those 11 failed including the top antivirusi n the world avira antivirus which i use too...

Acc, to the test, an antivirus should detect all the malware which it has been passed thro'. More than 3,000 unique samples of 4 categories of viruslike WildList viruses, worms and bots, polymorphic viruses, and Trojans.

List of all viruses which has passed and failed are listed below:

PASS:

Alwil avast!, AVG I.S. Network Edition, BitDefender Security, CA eTrust, eScan internet security, ESET NOD32, F-Secure Anti-Virus, G Data AntiVirus, K7 Total Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, McAfee VirusScan, Microsoft Forefront, Quick Heal AntiVirus Lite, Symantec Endpoint, and Trustport Antivirus 2009.

FAILED:

AhnLab V3Net (171 wildlist misses), Authentium Command (159 wildlist misses), Avira AntiVir Server (1 wildlist miss), Filseclab Twister (5655 wildlist misses, 1 false positive), Fortinet FortiClient (38 wildlist misses), Frisk F-PROT (159 wildlist misses), Ikarus virus.utilities (3759 wildlist misses, 4 false positives), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Advanced (98 wildlist misses), Kingsoft I.S. 2009 Standard (2461 wildlist misses), Sophos Anti-Virus (1 wildlist miss), and VirusBuster for Servers (5 wildlist misses).