AntiVirus Software Comparison

AV-Comparatives is known for the thorough tests it does on security software. The company has released its February 2009 on-demand comparative roundup. Seventeen products were tested against 1.3 million malware samples received between May 2008 and early February 2009, which can be broken down into the following categories: 71.5 percent of trojans, 19.9 percent of backdoors/bots, 4.2 percent of worms, 1.9 percent of Windows-specific viruses, 1.6 percent of other malware, and 0.9 percent of scripts/macro viruses. The security company looked at how many malware samples each software missed (graph above) as well as false positives (shown below).

From http://arstechnica.com/