As much as antivirus companies trumpet their evolving abilities to root out viruses, worms and Trojans on your PC, the cybersecurity industry leaves out one important piece of information: all the malicious code they're not detecting.
Luckily, someone is scanning the scanners. On Thursday, the Austrian nonprofit firm AV-Comparatives released its annual report based on a year of testing the cybersecurity industry's antivirus offerings, systematically pitting each one against more than 3 million samples of malware pulled from computers around the world.
The best performers in the firm's tests? Two names most Americans have never heard of: the German company Avira and the Slovakian firm ESET. And those rankings, cybersecurity analysts say, may reflect just as much on the industry's growing pains as they do on the two firms' ability to clean up your hard drive.
Avira, based in Tettnang, Germany, won AV-Comparatives' label as the
overall best antivirus product of 2008, based on its ability to pull
more malicious files off hard drives than big name competitors like Symantec
In
the latest AV-Comparatives tests performed last month, for instance,
Avira found about two-thirds of the previously undetected
malware--collected over a four-week period--installed on the machines
it scanned. ESET's NOD32 program found 51%. Symantec and Microsoft, by
comparison, found only 44% of those samples, while McAfee's detection
rate was below 30%.
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