Out of 16 antivirus programs — none ‘very good’

AV-Comparatives.org recently released the results of a malware removal tests with which they tested and evaluated 16 anti-virus software solutions, list is as follows:

• Avast Professional Edition 4.8
• AVG Anti-Virus 8.5
• AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0
• BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010
• eScan Anti-Virus 10.0
• ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0
• F-Secure AntiVirus 2010
• G DATA AntiVirus 2010
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010
• Kingsoft AntiVirus 9
• McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009
• Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
• Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.10
• Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6
• Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010
• Trustport Antivirus 2009.

The test’s main focus was on the malware removal, all used samples were tested antivirus products were able to detect. The main question was if the products are able to successfully remove malware from an already infected/compromised system. The test report was aimed to typical home users.

The results are as follows:

None of the antivirus program performed “very good” in malware removal test. eScan, Symantec and Microsoft were the products good in removal of malware.

Some products do not remove all registry entries for the given purpose. In some cases it is not possible to know if the registry values were modified by the malware or by the user itself.

Which antivirus would you use? None? Or what? Choice is still yours.

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