AV-Test.org  has carried out a a massive test of current antivirus applications.  The test pitted 29 products against 606,901 different kinds of malware – a pretty big test I’m sure you’ll agree.

The malware breakdown (which included malware up to the 18th May) was as follows:

• 68,864 backdoors
• 407,487 Trojan Horses
• 47,891 bots (zombies)
• 82,659 worms

Here are some of the most interesting results (note that the scanning for each of the products was set to the most aggressive setting available):

• Best desktop product – WebWasher (which has a detection rate of 99.83%)
• Worst product – Computer Associates eTrust-VET (62.12% detection rate)
• Average detection rate was 86.95%

Here are the top 10 products:

1. WebWasher
2. AVK 2007
3. AntiVir
4. F-Secure
5. Symantec
6. Kaspersky
7. Fortinet
8. Avast!
9. AVG
10. Rising

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