a-squared Anti-Malware et Mamutu bloqueur de comportement malveillant - scanneur de Malware, suppression et protection contre de nouvelles infections des virus, Spyware, Trojan, Bots, Backdoors.
Prix-conseil !
A-SQUARED TESTÉ
LE MEILLEUR
DANS LES TESTS :
Octobre 2009 :
1. place: pour a-squared Anti-Malware
99.8% chez MRG Scanner Test #21 !
malwareresearchgroup.com
Septembre 2009 :
La meilleure détection dans toutes les catégories !
COM! Magazine test (Allemand)
Août 2009 :
1. place: a-squared Anti-Malware
une statistique de détection de
99.9% dans les tests
PC Security Labs
Juin 2009 :
1. place: a-squared Anti-Malware
99.7% chez MRG Scanner Test #19 !
malwareresearchgroup.com
Novembre 2008 :
99.84% Taux de détection dans
le test de comparaison d'antivirus
PC Security Labs!
Août 2008 :
"Sur les scanneurs testés,
a-squared de chez Emsisoft
nettement mieux que
les autres."
Dozleng.com Comparison Test
RÉCOMPENSES
a-squared Anti-Malware a été
récompensé, pour ses remarquables
performances en matière de
détection.
Meilleure statique de détection !
PC Magazine:
"Proche de la perfection de protection :
Il a bloqué tous les échantillons
du moment que chacun a essayé d'exécuter,
marquant une note parfaite
de 10 points sur 10."
Le meilleur scanneur de Trojan !
"Notre destructeur de Malware préféré :
a-squared Anti-Malware!"
SecuritySoftwareZone meilleure estimation
Tucows 5 vaches!
"En ce qui concerne les Vers, les Spywares et
les Trojans, a-squared Anti-Malware
est à peine à battre."
ZDNet Tip du jour
Classé 3e chez Constantinus
IT-Prix
MajorGeeks.com
Élu choix du rédacteur
PRODUITS
a-squared Anti-Malware Tests & Reviews
a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 got the Epsilon Award 2009!
During the annual European Software Conference, the Epsilon Award is given to the best software of the year.
This year's Epsilon winner is a-squared Anti-Malware!
That award winning was not only based on our efforts, but also on the massive support of the a-squared Anti-Malware user community.
Thank you very much!
The prize includes:
- A piece of art by an European artist and a winners certificate.
- 200 Euro in cash. Emsisoft will donate that amount to the SOS Children's Villages organization that was founded in Austria.
- Press coverage of our products.
- Entry to the Hall of Fame which means free full access for the winner only to future ESWCs.
Here's a short explanation of the Epsilon banner from the ESWC website:
Epsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet and the Phoenician Word for sun derives from that root. An astronomer knows that there is a constellation in space called (Lambda)-Epsilon which we can see at the right hand side. So the Epsilon Award is a combination of Excellency, craftsmanship and visionary ability. These are characteristics of an outstanding programmer and a piece of true software art.
a-squared Free outperforms Malwarebytes in detection and removal!
Donna Buenaventura, a highly respected security software expert and MVP, wrote a comparative review on BrightHub.com:
Which is Better? Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware vs. a-squared Free
Her test results:
a-squared Free won in the major categories!
- Malware Detection - Winner: a-squared Free
Of 100 malware samples, a-squared Free found 92, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware only 58.
- Removal of Detected Malware Samples - Winner: a-squared Free
a-squared Free was able to remove all detected samples without the need for a system restart.
- Performance - Scanning - Winner: a-squared Free
a-squared Free finished a full scan of the system drive in 29 minutes, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware took 1 hour and 24 minutes.
- Options and Feature - Winner: a-squared Free
a-squared Free lets you run a quick, smart, custom, right-click, silent, commandline and deep system scans.
One more test win for a-squared Anti-Malware in MRG October test
The famous Malware Research Group has again tested 21 antivirus products to protect your PC in October 2009. Tested virus scanners had to find the enormous amount of 554,891 malware samples, split into the following categories:
Trojans/Backdoors: 398,951
Windows Viruses: 8,864
Worms: 61,928
Adware/Spyware: 48,552
Rootkits/Exploits: 10,736
Other Malware: 25,860
That ensures a representative mix of current malware types that is similar to a "in-the-wild" malware mix. Test enviroment was a Windows XP machine with service pack 3. Here are the original test results:
| Programm | Erkennungsrate (%) |
| a-squared | 99.8% |
| Online Armor ++ | 99.8% |
| G Data | 99.6% |
| Avira | 99.5% |
| Ikarus | 99.4% |
| Panda | 98.9% |
| Norton | 98.8% |
| Avast | 98.7% |
| McAfee | 98.7% |
| BitDefender | 98.6% |
| eScan | 98.6% |
| F-Secure | 98.5% |
| Nod32 | 98.3% |
| Kaspersky | 98.2% |
| Comodo | 98.1% |
| AVG | 97.4% |
| F-Prot | 95.7% |
| Twister | 94.6% |
| Sophos | 94.4% |
| Norman | 93.2% |
| Spy Emergency |
66.5% |
We are proud to be able to defend our number one place!
a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 won the ProtectStar Award 2009!
The independent ProtectStar test lab makes detail reviews of security software solutions. Only a few selected products have been awarded with the ProtectStar Award during the last 5 years.
a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 was tested and won the coveted ProtectStar Award 2009!
Please check out the full 6-page detail review of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5.
a-squared Anti-Malware nominated for the Epsilon software award 2009!
Great news!
a-squared Anti-Malware was nominated for the Epsilon software award 2009. This award is given to the best software during the European Software Conference event, which is held once a year in Berlin, Germany.
The voting period just began and lasts until October 27, 2009, so please give us your vote!
We need your help to win! Please go to the voting website, scroll down to the bottom and click the Next button. Then select a-squared Anti-Malware from the list and submit your vote.
Thank you very much!
Mamutu 2.0 test and review by German com! magazine
The German com! magazine did a short test of the Mamutu 2.0 release in the latest issue 10/2009.
Quotes:
"Mamutu detected 100% of the tested Malware and blocked them."
(+) Detects new pests too.
(+) Less false alerts with the community.
German com! magazine has tested and compared 10 free antivirus tools
Issue 10/2009 of the German com! magazine published a big comparative of 10 freeware antivirus tools. The testing was executed by www.av-test.org. The In-the-wild test included 3200 of the most spread malwares. For the testing of the specific malware categories, they have used about 480,000 unique malware samples.
The following programs were tested:
- Avira Antivir Personal Free Antivirus 9.0
- Bitdefender Free Edition 10
- Panda Cloud Antivirus Beta
- Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
- Alwil Avast Antivirus Home 4.8
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5
- Emsi Software a-squared Free 4.5
- Comodo Internet Security 3.10
- PC Tools Antivirus Free Edition 6.0
- Clamwin Free Antivirus 0.95
The detection test results for a-squared Free:
- Wildlist-Malware on Demand: 100% detected - best in test!
- Worms: 99.99% detected - best in test!
- Backdoors: 99.98% detected - best in test!
- Bots: 99.81% detected - best in test!
- Trojans: 99.95% detected - best in test!
- 5 active nasties: 100% detected - best in test!
- Heuristic (1 week without updates): 63.56% detected - best in test!
- Heuristic (2 weeks without updates): 52.72% detected - number 2 in test
- Ad- and Spyware: 99.57% detected - best in test!
a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 reviewed by Softpedia
Softpedia.com is similar to Download.com a high quality software directory. They published a very detailed review of a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5.
Full quote of their conclusion:
The Good
Although it brings to the table a plethora of options and fine tuning settings, a-squared is easy to manage by any average user. Its detection rate was over 98% and the flexibility in letting you decide upon online threats is to be fully appreciated.
The initial wizard can help you set up the entire application while the main screen gives way to fine tuning options in order to customize the way it protects your system. For each app on the computer you can create rules to restrict their performance or receive alerts when suspicious behavior is detected.
The various layers of protection can be enabled/disabled at will and all a-squared activity is logged for later reference. Scheduling system is very well thought, offering the chance to plan scans at specific times, dates and with a certain frequency, as well as define a start and end interval.
In order to reduce the amount of alerts, community knowledge can kick in and decide for you, according to your pre-configuration.
The Bad
Surf Protection alerts can be quite annoying, especially if you're in the habit of roaming the less-known paths of the web. If tracking cookies are okay to block, with hosts things are different and many users may feel the urge to disable surf protection.
The Truth
a-squared managed to score high in our tests and prove that it can be a great ally against the cyber threats. It is easy to handle and the help file thoroughly explains every option in the program.
Background Guard can easily help you monitor any application for suspicious activity, as well as deflect malware-like activities on your computer.
Each program launched on the system can be scanned upon execution in order to make sure that its activity is benign. Alert system is flexible enough to let you automatically create a rule for the notifications you receive and thus reduce the amount of pop-up messages displayed.
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MRG Test: System Rescued by a-squared Anti-Malware
The independent testing organization Malware Research Group spent much efforts in creating a close to real world needs test environment.
Methodology:
The MRG testers have installed and tested 25 different security solutions to see if they can prevent virus infections. From pure antivirus over firewalls with antivirus features to full internet security suites. To make the test as representative as possible, they have executed 60 different nasties. All samples of malware used in this test came from infected machines, samples were collected in August 2009.
The test results:
Only less than 50% of the tested security products were able to protect the test system.
a-squared Anti-Malware has detected all malware samples!
On request, MRG told us that a-squared Anti-Malware was the only product which was able to detect all samples purely based on signature detection. The behavior blocker part was not even needed to prevent the infections.
The tables shows: Program tested, Amount of samples blocked, Amount of Samples missed, Passed or Failed the test.
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a-squared Anti-Malware: Best static detection in PCSL test!
PC Security Labs, a new but well established antivirus testing agency, published the July 2009 test.
Key facts:
- 23 well known antivirus products in test.
- 3132 Malware samples to be scanned.
Test results:
- Emsi Software's a-squared Anti-Malware and Tall Emu's Online Armor Personal Firewall ++ both missed only 3 samples, resulting in the first place in test!
- Of the missed 3 samples, a-squared Anti-Malware was able to catch 2 while dynamic testing (samples were started to see if the software can prevent infection).
- With only 1 missed sample, a-squared Anti-Malware's total detection rate is 99.97%!
Realtime protection test - a-squared and Mamutu passed
Malware Research Group did the first realtime protection test, executing 22 wide spread malware samples to see which security solutions are able to block them effectively (which is the most imporant fact on any antivirus program actually).
These were the candidates:
- Avira AntiVir Premium Version: 9.0.0.441
- a-squared Anti-Malware Version: 4.5.0.19
- avast! Professiona Edition Version: 4.8.1335
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Version: 9.0.0.463
- G Data AntiVirus 2010 Version: 20.0.1.1
- COMODO Internet Security Version: 3.10.102363.531
- ESET NOD32 Antivirus System Version: 4.0.437
- Norton AntiVirus 2009 Version: 16.5.0.134
- AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition: 8.5.406/1617
- Dr.Web anti-virus Version: 5.00.1.08030
Only 2 of 10 candidates passed the test:
a-squared Anti-Malware and Avira AntiVir!
Please check out the MRG website for more details: http://malwareresearchgroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=47
Additional note:
On request of Emsi Software, they have tested Mamutu 2.0 using the same samples. The result is stunning:
Even without any Malware signatures, Mamutu 2.0 blocked all samples too!
COM! magazine tested a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5
The German COM! computer magazine has published an extended product test for a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 in their July 2009 issue.
They wrote:
- 100% detection on the In-The-Wild test.
- Very good detection on less known viruses and trojans.
- Selfprotection is working efficiently.
- False alert rate is significantly lower compared with previous versions.
Conclusion:
(+) Very high detection rate
(+) Little false alerts
(+) Good self protection
(-) The user has to decide by himself on alert windows
The tool has been improved significantly, works 100% as it should and proves best detection.
On a scale from 1 (best) to 6 (worst), a-squared Anti-Malware was rated with a very good 2.0!
a-squared is best in MRG test! Massive sample set
Trojans/Backdoors - 468,850
Windows Viruses - 12,134
Worms - 64,358
Adware/Spyware - 58,224
Rootkits/Exploits - 11,058
Other Malware - 24,800
Samples were gatherered between 2008 and 2009 and represent a typical spread ratio of each individual malware group.
Testresults
The table shows the program tested, the amount of malware samples (all of the categories above) that were detected and removed.
| Program | Detection Rate (%) |
| a-squared | 99.7% |
| Avira | 99.5% |
| G DATA | 99.4% |
| Kaspersky | 98.8% |
| Avast | 98.7% |
| BitDefender | 98.6% |
| eScan | 98.5% |
| Norton | 98.2% |
| Nod32 | 97.4% |
| COMODO | 97.1% |
| McAfee | 96.8% |
| F-Secure | 96.4% |
| AVG | 96.2% |
| Norman | 95.4% |
| Twister | 94.6% |
| Sophos | 93.5% |
| Spy Emergency | 82.4% |
| ClamAV | 82.3% |
| Dr.Web | 79.5% |
Best detection rate in PCSL test - 99.97%
PC Security Labs has finished a new bi-monthly test of 19 major antivirus products. The testset contained 3,601 different malicious samples of March and April 2009, representing a typical scenario today:
- 61.7% Trojans
- 22.9% Backdoors
- 14.2% Worms
- 0.7% Rootkits
- 0.5% Viruses
In static testing (found by the disk scanner), a-squared Anti-Malware 4.5 missed 6 samples, which means a detection rate of 99.83%.
PCSL tested the missed 6 samples by starting them to see how much of them can be blocked by the a-squared Anti-Malware Guard. The result:
a-squared Anti-Malware missed only 1 malware sample!!!
That means the best total detection rate of 19 antivirus products!
Total detection rate results in detail:
MRG tested 18 AV products - a-squared is best in test!
Anti-Malware test performed by Malware Research Group in April 2009:
Project details: On Demand scan test
Operating System used in this test: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
Total number of programs used in this test: 18
Malware samples used in this test: 395.844
Malware categories used in this test and the amount of samples in each category :
Windows/Macro Viruses- 18.696
Trojans/Backdoors- 243.811
Worms/Rootkits- 86.634
Adware/Spyware- 46.703
The table shows the program tested, the amount of malware samples (all of the categories above) that were detected and removed.
Program
Detection Rate (%)
a-squared
99.6%
Avira
99.6%
G DATA
99.4%
Avast
99.2%
Norton
99.0%
Kaspersky
98.8%
BitDefender
98.7%
eScan
98.5%
F-Secure
98.3%
McAfee
98.1%
Nod32
97.6%
AVG
96.9%
COMODO
96.2%
Twister
95.7%
Sophos
93.5%
Norman
93.2%
Dr.Web
86.3%
ClamAV
85.7%
All details can be reviewed here: Test #18
SSUpdater.com Anti-Malware Test
Here is another anti malware challenge performed by SSUpdater Team (quoted):
This is the first Anti-Malware test performed by SSUpdater.com in 2009. but the long wait was worth it, in this test we used a total of 754.650 malware samples, and we concentrated only on the samples from the past 16 months. In this test we wanted to use as many known variants of all the famous names in the world of malware as possible, to name a few: Zlob, Monder, Conficker, Virtumonde, FraudPack, Renos, TDSS, AutoRun, Virut, Delf, FraudLoad, AutoIt, Inject, Kolab, Kolabc, Buzus, Poison, Bifrose, Palevo, Obfuscated, Adload, Zbot, Rbot, IFrame, Small, FakeAV, KillAV, Hupigon, Rukap, MyDNS, DNSChanger, Sinowal, Banker, Monderb, Sality, Midgare, Cinmus, Vanti, Stuh, Iksmas, Iroffer, OneStep, BlackHole, Magania, OnLineGames, Swizzor, Singu, Mudrop, Ciadoor, Qhost ........................ The malware categories used in this test: Windows Viruses, Trojans, Backdoors, Worms, Spyware, Adware, Rootkits, Exploits, Keyloggers, Hacking Tools, Malicious Scripts and other malwareNo unknown malware samples were used in this test. The test was conducted in virtual environment using Microsoft's Windows XP SP3 with all the latest updates. We used a total of 25 programs.All the programs used in this test were set to their maximum detection capabilities which include heuristic detection of unknown variants. The Results:
(Program name, Detection Rate)
1. Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Premium – 99.43%
2. a-squared Anti-Malware – 99.37%
3. G DATA Antivirus – 99.18%
4. avast! Professional Edition – 98.95%
5. Kaspersky Antivirus – 98.64%
6. Norton Antivirus – 98.58%
7. BitDefender Antivirus – 98.49%
8. ZoneAlarm Security Suite – 98.36%
9. F-Secure Antivirus – 98.16%
10. Nod32 Antivirus – 97.83%
11. McAfee Antivirus Plus – 97.51%
12. Comodo Internet Security – 96.93%
13. AVG Antivirus – 96.65%
14. Panda Antivirus – 96.22%
15. Rising Antivirus – 95.78%
16. Sophos Antivirus – 94.86%
17. F-Prot Antivirus – 93.47%
18. Outpost Security Suite – 92.58%
19. VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware – 92.49%
20. VirusKeeper – 91.31%
21. Spy Emergency – 73.62%
22. Dr.Web – 71.05%
23. CA Antivirus – 68.84%
24. BullGuard Internet Security - DNF
25. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware – DNF
*Note: Both BullGuard and Malwarebytes were unable to complete the scan therefore they classified as Did Not Finish.
Read all details on SSUpdater.com
Infected System Rescue test by MRG
Project details: Infected System Rescue test
Operating System used in this test: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3
Total number of programs used in this test: 18
Malware samples used in this test: 30
All the samples used should be detected by all the participants in this test.
All the samples used are wide spread and no “unknown” variants have been used.
List of Malware samples used in this test:
Adware.Win32.Cinmus.hen
Adware.Win32.Virtumonde.qpm
Backdoor.Win32.Bifrose.zbx
Backdoor.Win32.BlackHole.d
Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.efjs
Backdoor.Win32.Poison.oo
Backdoor.Win32.Singu.bt
Backdoor.Win32.Sinowal.bq
FraudTool.Win32.Agent.b
Hoax.Win32.Renos.vark
Net.Worm.Win32.Kolab.baq
Rootkit.Win32.Clbd.kr
Trojan.Win32.Buzus.jio
Trojan.Win32.Delf.hjd
Trojan.Win32.Inject.afm
Trojan.Win32.Midgare.gga
Trojan.Win32.Monder.dtn
Trojan.Win32.Monderb.hrf
Trojan.Win32.Qhost.kng
Trojan.Win32.VB.jiq
Trojan.Clicker.Win32.Small.kj
TrojanDownloader.FakeAlert.wr
TrojanDownloader.Win32.Agent.bbkf
TrojanDownloader.Win32.CodecPack.ml
TrojanDownloader.Win32.Zlob.wg
TrojanDropper.Win32.Mudrop.cy
TrojanSpy.Win32.Delf.dq
TrojanSpy.Win32.Zbot.dmz
TrojanSpy.Win32.VB.axg
Virus.Win32.Virut.bv
The Table shows the name of the program used,
how many points the program got and the final result.
| Product | Points | Result |
| a-squared | 30 | System Rescued |
| Avast | 30 | System Rescued |
| Avira | 30 | System Rescued |
| AVG | 30 | System Rescued |
| BitDefender | 30 | System Rescued |
| COMODO | 30 | System Rescued |
| ClamAV | 26 | Failed |
| Dr.Web | 23 | Failed |
| eScan | 30 | System Rescued |
| F-Secure | 30 | System Rescued |
| G DATA | 30 | System Rescued |
| Kaspersky | 30 | System Rescued |
| McAfee | 28 | Failed |
| NOD32 | 24 | Failed |
| Norman | 27 | Failed |
| Norton | 30 | System Rescued |
| Sophos | 29 | Failed |
| Twister | 28 | Failed |
Read on here for testing methodology and details.
Gizmo's Best Free Trojan Scanner/Trojan Remover
a-squared Free is rated as best free trojan scanner/trojan remover by techsupportalert.com.
Quote:
a-squared Free is a good choice to scan and remove malware, especially trojans, from your PC. It removes reliably the trojans containing backdoors, keyloggers, dialers and other destructive pests which make it dangerous to surf the web.
a-squared Free wins SSUpdater's Antimalware Test
The SSUpdater Team did their first freeware antimalware competition.
From the SSUpdater Forum:
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.
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)
Read all details on SSUpdater.com
a-squared Anti-Malware rated as best in antivirus test of PCSL
PC Security Labs, a new antivirus testing organization, did a scanner comparative test of 6 antivirus products:
a-squared Anti-Malware 4.0.0.14
Ikarus virus.utilities T3 1001034
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.454(a,b)
Kingsoft Internet Security 2008 2008.9.8.18
Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2008 8.910-1002
Twister Anti-TrojanVirus V7 R3 7.3.1.23211
Total Detection Summary: 1979 Malware Samples
1. a-squared: 1970: 99.56%
2. Ikarus: 1968: 99.44%
3. Kaspersky: 1948: 98.43%
4. Twister: 1917: 96.87%
5. Trend Micro: 1823: 92.12%
6. Kingsoft: 1686: 85.19%
Read all details about this antivirus test here.
a-squared Free is best rogue antispyware remover in CoU test of 8 freeware scanners
From Calender Of Updates forum:
Rogue Detections: Old, Not So Old and New Threats
To complete the test we gathered some old (2 years ago), not so old (last year) and new (this year) rogue samples.
Some misleading applications in this test were picked-up by searching the internet using keywords that is similar to non-misleading and popular software. (Example: AntivirProtect is similar to Antivir by AVIRA, SpyBlaster is similar to SpywareBlaster by Javacool). Others were picked by visiting websites that offer database of software (free downloads website). Some were picked by directly going to rogue software vendor's website.
Note: There are rogue products in these test that were not picked but was offered by existing rogue software e.g. PCTurboPro offers another rogue software: WinAntivirus 2007 Pro.
We selected most of the samples not by risk level but by it's age level. Please read on to find out why it is IMPORTANT that age level (old, not so old, new threats) is important to be detected especially if the method to get the samples is easy as searching the internet, using a search engine or by going to any website that is offering free downloads.
We've run the test by scanning the system with the following free antispyware/antimalware applications:
A-Squared by Emsisoft (A2)
Ad-Aware 2007 by Lavasoft (AAW)
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware by Malwarebytes (MBAM)
RogueRemover by Malwarebytes (RR)
SUPERAntispyware by Superantispyware.com (SAS)
Spyware Doctor Starter Edition by PC Tools (SD)
Spybot Search & Destroy by Safer Networking (SSD)
Windows Defender by Microsoft (WD)
Please note that it is IMPORTANT that a scanner to be able to detect not only the newer threats but also old threats because these threats are still in the wild and are available through different distributions (email, website, ads, phishing etc).
Results
1. A-Squared: 91.4%2. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware: 65.7%2. RogueRemover: 65.7%4. Ad-Aware: 61.4%5. Spybot Search & Destroy: 58.6%6. SUPERAntispyware: 54.3%7. Windows Defender: 42.9%8. Spyware Doctor Starter Edition: 40.0%Analysis
1. It goes without saying, but we'll say it, anyway, a perfect malware scanner does not exist.2. Of the scanners tested, a-squared by Emisoft performed significantly better than the others. It only failed to detect six items. This product performed equally well detecting the old, not so old and new threats.
3. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and RogueRemover both performed well on the tests. RogueRemover failed to detect 24 rogue samples and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, concidentally, also failed to detect 24 rogue samples. It should be noted that the failed samples were not the same items on both scanners. When scanned with both of scanners, the total number of samples missed was only ten. This is important to note since it clearly displays the benefit of using multiple scanners. One succeeds where the other fail, but both used together failed on a much smaller group of samples.
4. Ad-aware, Spyware Doctor, Spybot S&D, Windows Defender and SUPERAntispyware all performed very poorly. As this test clearly indicates, there are other scanners available that did a better job detecting threats. If you are currently using any of the scanners in this group, you should consider using the other scanners highlighted in this test either in addition to, or instead of, this group.
Donna, thanks for testing these products!
