Latest AV Comparatives report is out

If you're wondering which AV vendor to use on your web gateway, you might want to take a look at the latest AV Comparatives report.

It covers a long list of AV Vendors including: Avast, AVG, Avira, BitDefender, eScan, Eset, F-Secure, G Data, K7, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Panda, PC Tools, Qihoo, Sophos, Symantec Norton, Trend Micro, Trustport and Webroot.

In terms of missed samples (lower is better), G Data topped the list followed by Trustport, Avast, Panda, and F-Secure. At the bottom of the list was K7, followed by Webroot, AVG, PC Tools and Sophos. This ranged from a 99.8% detection rate down to 84.4% for K7.

The other side of the testing looked at false positives. McAfee scored at the top with zero false positives, followed by Microsft, and a 3 way tie for third with BitDefender, eScan and F-Secure. At the bottom of the list was Trend Micro with 290 false positives, followed by Qihoo, Webroot, Eset, and Avast. Avast came in with 19 false positives.

In addition to detection rates and false positives, AV Comparatives also looked at speed of scanning. The highest throughput was Avast, followed by Panda, K7, Webroot and McAfee. The slowest vendor was Microsoft, followed by PC Tools, Qihoo, eScan and Eset.

Given these three parameters, 7 products were awarded the highest honors. These vendors included Trustport, F-Secure, Bitdefender, Avira, eScan, Kaspersky and McAfee.

Check out the report yourself at http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_feb2011.pdf