DISCLAIMERS - PLEASE READ BEFORE REVIEWING RESULTS:

1. All antivirus binary analysis results are provided via www.virustotal.com.

2. Each binary is submitted for evaluation within 24hrs of our harvesting it live from the Internet. Each antivirus tool is only given this one attempt to detect the binary. Our intention is to evaluate how the antivirus tools are performing against the latest malware on the Internet, at least from the narrow vantage point of our honeynet.

3. Please be aware that most antivirus vendors WILL be able to detect the malware binaries listed in the missed set, usually within a few days. Therefore you should not view an antivirus tool's missed binaries list as a reflection of its current detection coverage. Rather, it is only a list of binaries that were missed at the time of our evaluation.

4. Our detection rates represent the TRUE POSITIVE detection rates. The results do not take into consideration the false positive rate of a given tool, and thus a tool that declares everything to be infected would appear to have the highest true positive percentage rate.




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Missed = Malware binary miss count
Missed Logs = Full list of all missed malware binaries
Detects = Antivirus system overall detection rate based on exposure to 1311 malware binaries

Rank Detects Missed Missed Log Product Vendor CC Product URL
1st 89% 133 Ikarus_Missed_MD5s.html Ikarus Ikarus Security Software   www.ikarus-software.at
2nd 89% 143 AVG_Missed_MD5s.html AVG Grisoft Inc   www.grisoft.com
3rd 88% 146 Microsoft_Missed_MD5s.html Microsoft Microsoft Corporation   www.microsoft.com
4th 88% 146 AntiVir_Missed_MD5s.html AntiVir Avira   www.free-av.com
5th 87% 161 DrWeb_Missed_MD5s.html DrWeb Dr. Web   www.drweb.com
6th 87% 166 Kaspersky_Missed_MD5s.html Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab   www.kaspersky.com
7th 87% 170 BitDefender_Missed_MD5s.html BitDefender BitDefender Inc   www.bitdefender.com
8th 87% 170 F-Prot_Missed_MD5s.html F-Prot Frisk Software International   www.f-prot.com
9th 86% 174 Sophos_Missed_MD5s.html Sophos Sophos Labs   www.sophos.com
10th 86% 177 Authentium_Missed_MD5s.html Authentium Authentium   www.authentium.com
11th 85% 196 F-Secure_Missed_MD5s.html F-Secure F-Secure Corporation   www.f-secure.com
12th 83% 215 Norman_Missed_MD5s.html Norman Norman Inc   www.norman.com
13th 82% 235 GData_Missed_MD5s.html GData G Data Software AG   www.gdata.be
14th 81% 237 CAT-QuickHeal_Missed_MD5s.html CAT-QuickHeal Quick Heal Technologies   quickheal.co.in
15th 81% 247 VBA32_Missed_MD5s.html VBA32 VirusBlokAda Ltd   www.anti-virus.by/en
16th 81% 248 VirusBuster_Missed_MD5s.html VirusBuster VirusBuster Ltd   www.virusbuster.hu
17th 81% 248 Avast_Missed_MD5s.html Avast ALWIL Software   www.avast.com
18th 81% 249 eTrust-Vet_Missed_MD5s.html eTrust-Vet Computer Associates   www.ca.com
19th 81% 250 Symantec_Missed_MD5s.html Symantec Symantec Corporation   www.symantec.com
20th 80% 255 AhnLab-V3_Missed_MD5s.html AhnLab-V3 AhnLab   www.ahnlab.com
21st 80% 258 TrendMicro_Missed_MD5s.html TrendMicro Trend Micro   www.trendmicro.com
22nd 80% 258 Fortinet_Missed_MD5s.html Fortinet Fortinet Inc   www.fortinet.com
23rd 79% 268 Rising_Missed_MD5s.html Rising Beijing Rising International Software   www.rising-global.com
24th 77% 292 McAfee_Missed_MD5s.html McAfee McAfee Inc   www.mcafee.com
25th 77% 293 ClamAV_Missed_MD5s.html ClamAV SourceFire   www.clamv.net
26th 77% 302 TheHacker_Missed_MD5s.html TheHacker Hacksoft   www.hacksoft.com.pe
27th 74% 333 Panda_Missed_MD5s.html Panda Panda Security   www.pandasecurity.com
28th 8% 1205 Webwasher-Gateway_Missed_MD5s.html Webwasher-Gateway Secure Computing   www.securecomputing.com
29th 7% 1208 Ewido_Missed_MD5s.html Ewido Ewido Networks   www.ewido.net
30th 7% 1216 NOD32v2_Missed_MD5s.html NOD32v2 ESET LLC   www.eset.com