Can somebody give me a good souce in which you can prove what antivirus have the best detection rate?

Question

ok there are kaspersky, norton, mcafee, AVG, avast, avira and many more... can anybody show me a good source as par as performance is concern... Thanks....

Answer 1

http://www.av-comparatives.org/ will show you the comparisons and detection rates, the eicar test from Sly Old Mole will test you AV to see if it works.

A good antivirus will block the download of the eicar files, more details can be found here:

http://cotojo.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a...

There is also Free v Paid AntiVirus:

Many, but not all, of the free versions have less functionality.  The virus definitions are the same in both the free version and the paid version.  For many vendors, they hope that you will upgrade to the paid version.

Example from Avast and AVG Free v. Paid:

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-compare-h...

http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti...

Answer 2

THE ANTI-VIRUS OR ANTI-MALWARE TEST FILE

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_fil...

Answer 3

Checkout the article from http://www.pcworld.com/article/140127/to... by PCWorld   Mazagine.

Answer 4

Let me give you a tip choosing a good antivirus for your PC because i know you really do care for your pc =)

Here's a link which serve me best choosing an antivirus http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008...

I conducted a research for myself, hope it will help you...

Answer 5

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

Ok it wont let you link right to the report you have to click comparatives and then the two tests at the bottom.

Remember these are only the paid for verisons not the free ones.

Answer 6

If you want to choose the anti-virus with the best detection rate.

You must understand that best detection rates have 3 interpretation.

Detection rates against KNOWN viruses ?

Detection rates against UNKNOWN viruses ?

Detection rates against FALSE POSITIVE ?

So far the big companies didn't impress me.

Another guy here sent 3 trojan viruses and many anti-virus program fail to detect them.

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/c3558...

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/1ea91...

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/c6a70...