Antivirus Scanners Comparison

Andreas Marx tested Antivirus Scanner Detection Rates on 289,682 malware samples:

RANKED RESULTS
#1 WebWasher 99.97%
#2 AntiVir 99.95%
#3 AVK 2007 99.95%
#4 AVK 2006 99.89%
#5 Symantec 99.04%
#6 Kaspersky 98.86%
#7 F-Secure 98.24%
#8 BitDefender 96.51%
#9 Norman 96.34%
#10 Nod32 95.80%
#11 Avast! 95.17%
#12 AVG 94.78%
#13 Fortinet 94.65%
#14 McAfee 93.99%
#15 Rising 91.18%
#16 Panda 90.45%
#17 Dr Web 90.38%
#18 Trend Micro 90.03%
#19 Ikarus 84.77%
#20 VBA32 81.28%
#21 F-Prot 77.88%
#22 Command 77.11%
#23 Microsoft 76.18%
#24 Ewido 74.67%
#25 Sophos 65.55%
#26 eSafe 59.34%
#27 UNA 58.76%
#28 QuickHeal 55.72%
#29 ClamAV 48.71%
#30 eTrust-VET 48.37%
#31 eTrust-INO 41.92%
#32 VirusBuster 40.94%
Median 90.42%