DISCLAIMER: These detection rates represent the TRUE POSITIVE detection rates of these various antivirus tools on the limited corpus of malware binaries captures by our honeynet. 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. All antivirus results provided via www.virustotal.com.
Most Effective Antivirus Tools Against New Malware Binaries
Sat Jul 5 10:48:11 2008
Missed = Malware binary miss count
Missed Logs = Full list of all missed malware binaries
Detects = Antivirus system overall detection rate based on exposure to 2665 malware binaries
| Rank | Detects | Missed | Missed Log | Product | Vendor | CC | Product URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 96% | 87 | AntiVir_Missed_MD5s.html | AntiVir | Avira |  |
www.free-av.com |
| 2nd | 96% | 100 | Webwasher-Gateway_Missed_MD5s.html | Webwasher-Gateway | Secure Computing |  |
www.securecomputing.com |
| 3rd | 94% | 137 | Ikarus_Missed_MD5s.html | Ikarus | Ikarus Security Software |  |
www.ikarus-software.at |
| 4th | 93% | 170 | BitDefender_Missed_MD5s.html | BitDefender | BitDefender Inc |  |
www.bitdefender.com |
| 5th | 92% | 194 | F-Secure_Missed_MD5s.html | F-Secure | F-Secure Corporation |  |
www.f-secure.com |
| 6th | 91% | 224 | AVG_Missed_MD5s.html | AVG | Grisoft Inc |  |
www.grisoft.com |
| 7th | 89% | 291 | Sophos_Missed_MD5s.html | Sophos | Sophos Labs |  |
www.sophos.com |
| 8th | 88% | 299 | Avast_Missed_MD5s.html | Avast | ALWIL Software | |
www.avast.com |
| 9th | 88% | 302 | Norman_Missed_MD5s.html | Norman | Norman Inc |  |
www.norman.com |
| 10th | 88% | 302 | Kaspersky_Missed_MD5s.html | Kaspersky | Kaspersky Lab |  |
www.kaspersky.com |
| 11th | 87% | 341 | CAT-QuickHeal_Missed_MD5s.html | CAT-QuickHeal | Quick Heal Technologies |  |
quickheal.co.in |
| 12th | 85% | 383 | ClamAV_Missed_MD5s.html | ClamAV | SourceFire | |
www.clamv.net |
| 13th | 84% | 425 | DrWeb_Missed_MD5s.html | DrWeb | Dr. Web | |
www.drweb.com |
| 14th | 83% | 430 | VirusBuster_Missed_MD5s.html | VirusBuster | VirusBuster Ltd |  |
www.virusbuster.hu |
| 15th | 82% | 456 | Microsoft_Missed_MD5s.html | Microsoft | Microsoft Corporation | |
www.microsoft.com |
| 16th | 82% | 469 | eTrust-Vet_Missed_MD5s.html | eTrust-Vet | Computer Associates | |
www.ca.com |
| 17th | 79% | 537 | Rising_Missed_MD5s.html | Rising | Beijing Rising International Software |  |
www.rising-global.com |
| 18th | 79% | 541 | F-Prot_Missed_MD5s.html | F-Prot | Frisk Software International |  |
www.f-prot.com |
| 19th | 79% | 559 | Fortinet_Missed_MD5s.html | Fortinet | Fortinet Inc | |
www.fortinet.com |
| 20th | 78% | 567 | TheHacker_Missed_MD5s.html | TheHacker | Hacksoft |  |
www.hacksoft.com.pe |
| 21st | 78% | 573 | Symantec_Missed_MD5s.html | Symantec | Symantec Corporation | |
www.symantec.com |
| 22nd | 75% | 654 | VBA32_Missed_MD5s.html | VBA32 | VirusBlokAda Ltd |  |
www.anti-virus.by/en |
| 23rd | 75% | 658 | AhnLab-V3_Missed_MD5s.html | AhnLab-V3 | AhnLab |  |
www.ahnlab.com |
| 24th | 74% | 689 | McAfee_Missed_MD5s.html | McAfee | McAfee Inc | |
www.mcafee.com |
| 25th | 73% | 704 | Panda_Missed_MD5s.html | Panda | Panda Security |  |
www.pandasecurity.com |
| 26th | 70% | 776 | NOD32v2_Missed_MD5s.html | NOD32v2 | ESET LLC |  |
www.eset.com |
| 27th | 66% | 895 | Authentium_Missed_MD5s.html | Authentium | Authentium | |
www.authentium.com |
| 28th | 26% | 1968 | Ewido_Missed_MD5s.html | Ewido | Ewido Networks | |
www.ewido.net |
| 29th | 21% | 2093 | Prevx1_Missed_MD5s.html | Prevx1 | Prevx Corporation | |
www.prevx.com |
| 30th | 8% | 2433 | Sunbelt_Missed_MD5s.html | Sunbelt | Sunbelt Software | |
www.sunbelt-software.co |
| 31st | 0% | 2666 | FileAdvisor_Missed_MD5s.html | FileAdvisor | Bit9.com | |
fileadvisor.bit9.com |