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Monday, September 13, 2010

Which Antivirus is the Best at Present Time

"Which antivirus is good and which is bad" is an important issue in computer technology. Technology is growing day by day. It helps people of this world to perform their works easily. But there are also some bad minded people who always tries to do harm to the people. They create virus for computer, mobile etc. which causes damage to the system. So from a long ago, the antivirus making organizations are producing antivirus to protect systems from such attack. There are a lot of organizations who provides antivirus to people. But all the antivirus activities are not same. Some are strong and some are weak.

The Austrian Volunteer Organization AV Comperatives arrange a test regularly with all the renowned antivirus. In the last February they arranged such a test. The test was conducted with total 12,24,732 virus. In this test G Data antivirus took the first place detecting the total 12,19,371 virus. Kingsoft took the second place detecting about 10 lac virus. But the position of kaspersky seems not too good. In the following I am giving a detailed chart:

Antivirus Version Detection Rate Speed of file scan(per second) Fake virus detection rate
G Data Trial 99.6% 10.6 MB Less
Avira Free 99.3% 17.7 MB Less
Trustport Trial 99.1% 5.6 MB Less
PCtools Free 98.7% 9.7 MB Less
Symantec Trial 98.6% 18.6 MB Less
F-secure Trial 97.8% 5.9 MB Very Less
Eset Trial 97.7% 8.7 MB Very Less
Bit defender Free 97.5% 5.4 MB Very Less
Escan Trial 97.5% 3.7 MB Very Less
Avast Free 97.3% 15.5 MB Less
Kaspersky Trial 97.1% 10.7 MB Less
Mcafee Trial 98.9% 6.6 MB Comparatively High
Panda Free 99.2% 17.1 MB Comparatively High
Microsoft Security Essentials Free 96.3% 5.8 MB Very Less
Sophos Trial 93.7% 15.2 MB Less
AVG Free 94.2% 13.1 MB Less
K-7 Trial 96.4% 12.5 MB Very High

AV Comparatives conducted their test using the computer of configuration:

OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8300/2.83 Ghz
RAM: 2 GB
Hard Disk: Sata 2

2 comments:

  1. Antivirus is not needed when you are too expert, sometimes it becomes too essential. My thesis groupmet's laptop was attacked by "Mr. Guddu" virus. He found a text file only in each drive, and all other contents were removed. We tried by expert norton recovery but failed. A very bad experience, you can not imagine. So my advice is to use antivirus in windows OS, but if you use LINUX, then it is different case.

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