35 Antivirus tested, Who so great?

An antivirus test recently conducted by an independent security consultant. At least 35 anti-brand world of try strength against various viruses and malicious programs that make it their own.

Chaz Sowers, the consultant, and confess that the methodology does not take sides and this test does not use scientific methods of double-blind. "At least, I have a goal to find the best antivirus solution for my own computer. Above all, please note: I am looking for an antivirus product that is able to identify and remove most of the test amount of malware that I have," he explained.

Focus on the test is indeed the number of which can be detected and the software also reported the 'error positive' with a large number of virus and the invasion of malware to antivirus been tested.

To run these tests Chaz operating system Windows XP virtual machine on the new Sun Virtual Box. Installing Windows has been completely updated (including SP3) per 8 January 2009.

Every antivirus program copied to the main computer from the shared folder and is the only program on a virtual machine that is not part of the normal Windows install. Test incoming data is stored on drive D and consists of 36,438 malware and all of which have or are currently outstanding.

Meanwhile, from the hardware used consists of the AMD Sempron processor 2600-Plus, the motherboard Asus A7N8X-E, 3 GB DDR RAM 184 pins, a hard drive Seagate 190GB SATA, and an nVidia video card.

Who's winning antivirus products tested in the world? Here are the results cited detikINET from csoonline, Tuesday (16/6/2009):

Position - Products - Malware Detected - Total%

1. - G Data - 36.423 - 99.95%
2. - Trust Port - 36.171 - 99.26%
3. - EScan - 36.146 - 99.20%
5. - BitDefender - 36.105 - 99.08%
6. - Avira - 35.846 - 98.37%
7. - Hauri - 35.325 - 96.94%
8. - Trend Micro - 35.182 - 96.55%
9. - Drweb - 34.114 - 93.62%
10. - F-Prot - 32.635 - 89.56%
11. - Ashampoo - 32.291 - 88.61%
12. - Panda - 31.719 - 87.04%
13. - BullGuard - 31.608 - 86.74%
14. - PCTools - 30.023 - 82.39%
15. - Arcabit - 28.944 - 79.43%
16. - Software Rising - 27.991 - 76.81%
17. - Clam - 27.247 - 74.77%
18. - CA - 24.996 - 68.59%
19. - ESET - 23.746 - 65.16%
20. - VBA - 22.417 - 61.52%
21. - AhnLab - 21.301 - 58.45%
22. - Norton (Symantec) - 20.404 - 55.99%
23. - Kaspersky - 20.289 - 55.68%
25. - File Sentry - 111 - 3:04%
26. - AVG - 110 - 3:01%
27. - Hacker Eliminator - 1 - 0%

Some anti-virus is eliminated because they reported the amount of malware that more than the amount that is actually on the computer (positive error): Comodo, drweb CureIt, F-Secure and McAfee.

Even so, at the end of the test Chaz make a disclaimer that the results of this test should not serve as the sole basis for purchasing a particular antivirus. In addition, there is not one of these products or recommended by the professional associations have a certification.