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August 2006

All programs tested had the latest versions, upgrades and updates and they were tested using their full scanning capabilities e.g. heuristics, full scan etc. The default settings of each program were not used, in order for each program to achieve its maximum detection rate. Because of this, there is a possibility for the tested programs to detect a few false positives.

The 147184 virus samples were chosen using VS2000 according to Kaspersky, F-Prot, Nod32, Dr.Web, BitDefender and McAfee antivirus programs. Each virus sample was unique by virus name, meaning that AT LEAST 1 antivirus program detected it as a new virus.

ALL virus samples were unpacked and the only samples that were kept were the ones that were packed using external-dos-packers (that means not winzip, winrar, winace etc).

The virus samples had the correct file extension using a special program (Renexts) and were unique, according to checksum32 filesize.

Detection

Digital Patrol version 5.00.12 - detect 54.29%

Ewido Premium and Freeware version 4.0.0.172 - 51.27%

ClamWin version 0.88.4 - 51.23%

A-Squared Anti-Malware and Free version 2.0 - 43.28%

Comodo version 1.0.0.4 - 41.02%

PC Door Guard version 4.2.0.35- 24.13%

AntiTrojan Shield version 2.1.0.14 - 24.11%

Trojan Hunter version 4.2.924 - 13.44%

Trojan Remover version 6.5.1 - 8.00%

Tauscan version 1.70.1414 - 7.70%

The Cleaner version 4.2.4319 - 6.03%

Hacker Eliminator version 1.2 - 1.70%

Abacre version 1.4 - 0.00%

Heuristics-only detection (includes only antivirus software that allowed heuristics NOT to be used during the scan)

Rank Antivirus - Detected using only heuristics (this is the total of samples that would not be detected by each antivirus if heuristics were not used and not the total of samples that are detected by each antivirus using heuristics!)

Digital Patrol 5.00.12 - 4760
Panda 2007 2.00.01 - 4191
Norton 2006 Professional - 4004
Trojan Hunter 4.2.924 - 3766
AntiVir 7.01.01.02 Premium - 3697
AntiVir 7.01.01.02 Classic - 3594
Dr. Web 4.33.2 - 3575
Norman 5.90.23 - 3272
F-Prot 3.16f - 2493
McAfee Enterpise 8.0.0 - 991
Sophos Sweep 6.0.2 - 869
BullGuard 6.1 - 511
BitDefender 8.0.202 freeware - 511
AntiTrojan Shield 2.1.0.14 - 386
BitDefender 9 Professional - 353
ZoneAlarm 6.5.722.000 with VET Antivirus - 124
PC Door Guard 4.2.0.35 - 52
eScan 8.0.671.1 - 45
Comodo 1.0.0.4 - 0
Quick Heal 8.00 - 0

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