Welcome to SSUpdater.com Anti-Malware Test Free Edition, the only truly independent malware test online!!!
In this test we have used a total of 18 freeware programs and 4 full version programs, the full version programs were tested so they can show you how the freeware programs compare to them.
The test was conducted in a virtual environment using fully updated Windows XP SP3, identical clones were created for every program tested, the programs used were set to their maximum capabilities and used the latest signature database/program build.
In total we used 303.200 malware samples including all the latest malware samples that were found until the testing began. We have used the flowing malware categories: Windows Viruses, Trojans, Backdoors, Worms, Spyware, Adware, Rootkits, Exploits, Keyloggers, Hacking Tools, Malicious Scripts and other types of malware.
We have measured the amount of memory that was used by all programs tested, the amount that you will see is only the memory used by the scanning process.
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The Results:
(Detection Rate/Average Memory Used)
1. a-squared Anti-Malware 4.0 Free Edition - 99.48% (90.000k)
2. AntiVir Personal Edition - 98.74% (50.000k)
3. Avast! Home Edition – 98.71% (58.000k)
4. BitDefender Free Edition – 96.81% (31.000k)
5. McAfee by AOL – 95.58% (96.000k)
6. Comodo Internet Security – 94.85% (26.000k)
7. DriveSentry – 93.66% (15.000k)
8. AVZ Antiviral Toolkit 4 – 92.36% (20.000k)
9. Rising Antivirus Free Edition – 92.18% (65.000k)
10. Blink Personal Edition – 91.08% (110.000k)
11. AVG Antivirus Free Edition – 89.22% (51.000k)
12. Moon Secure Antivirus Beta – 88.47% (82.000k)
13. PC Tools Antivirus Free Edition – 87.69% (20.000k)
14. a-squared Anti-Malware 3.5 – 85.39% (48.000k)
15. My Free Antivirus – 83.87% (58.000k)
16. Spyware Terminator with ClamAV – 79.62% (156.000k)
17. ClamWin Antivirus – 74.48% (25.000k)
18. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware – 3.71% (28.000k)
Full Versions:
1. Avira AntiVir Premium – 98.83% (50.000k)
2. Kaspersky Antivirus – 98.28% (41.000k)
3. Norton Antivirus – 96.94% (125.000k)
4. Nod32 4.0 beta – 89.79% (48.000k)
* Note: Since this test, like all the other ones that are made by the SSUpdater Team, will be shown on various websites,forums,support forums.... and will be commented by various "security experts" which favor certain programs, I call on them to come here at http://ssupdater.com , and give their opinion here where they can get answers from people who are responsible for this test.
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