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Avast Antivirus Awarded the AV-Comparatives

Talk about antivirus, of course we would prefer that free antivirus by reason of cost. I am also one of the user's antivirus free like "avast antivirus". Well, recently, antivirus software from Avast, "avast! Free Antivirus 5.0", won awards from AV-comparatives in its examination. AV-comparatives is the Austrian company that routinely conduct an independent test of security products, especially anti-virus software. In this test, a total of 20 antivirus products to participants in the test. The 20 participants are :

Avast Antivirus Awarded


  1. avast! Free Antivirus 5 (5.0.396)
  2. AVG Anti-Virus 9.0 (9.0.733)
  3. AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9 (9.0.0.457)
  4. BitDefender Antivirus 2010 (13.0.19.347)
  5. eScan Anti-Virus 10 (10.0.1058.644)
  6. ESET NOD32 Anti-Virus 4.0 (4.0.474.0)
  7. F-Secure Anti-Virus 2010 (10.12.108)
  8. G DATA AntiVirus 2010 (20.2.4.1)
  9. K7 TotalSecurity 10.0 (10.0.0025)
  10. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 (9.0.0.736)
  11. Kingsoft Antivirus 2010 (2010.2.10.1)
  12. McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2010 (14.0.306)
  13. Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 (1.0.1611.0)
  14. Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.30
  15. Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 (9.01.00)
  16. PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AV 7.0 (7.0.0.514)
  17. Sophos Anti-Virus 9.0 (9.0.3)
  18. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010 (17.5.0.127)
  19. Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2010 (17.50.1366.0)
  20. TrustPort Antivirus 2010 (5.0.0.4087)

Tests performed on antivirus products above include samples with a total of 1,224,732 popular malicious program, which consists of :

  • 19.396 Windows Viruses
  • 1.617 Macro viruses
  • 3.585 Script malware
  • 116.446 Worms
  • 129.883 Backdoors/Bots
  • 939.654 Trojans, dan
  • 14.151 other Malware


Avast Antivirus Awarded the AV-Comparatives

In tests conducted by AV-comparatives, an antivirus product will reach the category Advanced+ if it is able to detect malicious programs 97-100 percent. In addition, error detection of viruses, also have to be very low. For those of you computer users, testing of antivirus products above can be considered to select or use a powerful anti-virus.

Lastly, Congratulations for Avast Antivirus, especially the "avast! Free Antivirus 5.0." Improve the performance of his longer.


Source : http://www.av-comparatives.org/home
Images : http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report25.pdf