Everything is increasing -- bis

In "Everything is increasing", I gave some statistics on Antivirus detection rates. I just wanted to add this one from http://winnow.oitc.com/malewarestats.php. Read the previous article before you look at it.

When a piece of Malware is detected by the Malware Incident Reporting & Termination (MIRT) team, it is uploaded to VirusTotal for analysis. The performance of each antivirus engine is monitored by CastleCops. Once an hour, the system checks for updates. If there are some, the information on the performance of the 36 antivirus engines on all the detected malware is accumulated and statistics are updated for display by OITC.

The statistics provided here are an indication of the ability of the AntiVirus system's ability to deal with near 0-day infections. The performance by each antivirus system on early detections do not reflect the overall performance of an antivirus system. Consult with your IT department or computer security specialist for a more detailed analysis.

These performance statistics have been accumulated since Saturday, 2 December 2006, e.g. for the last 480 days. The most recent malware was detected and processed as of Tue Mar 25 18:27:07 2008 EDT.

AntiVirus Engine	Detection Rate
AVG	26%
AhnLab-V3	7%
AntiVir	66%
Authentium	15%
Avast	20%
BitDefender	50%
CAT-QuickHeal	31%
ClamAV	16%
DrWeb	29%
Ewido	28%
F-Prot	15%
F-Prot4	18%
F-Secure	43%
FileAdvisor	9%
Fortinet	56%
Ikarus	53%
Kaspersky	46%
McAfee	24%
Microsoft	20%
NOD32v2	37%
Norman	25%
Panda	53%
Prevx1	23%
Sophos	29%
Sunbelt	38%
Symantec	25%
TheHacker	9%
UNA	10%
VBA32	33%
VirusBuster	19%
Webwasher-Gateway	80%
eSafe	50%
eTrust-InoculateIT	5%
eTrust-Vet	14%

Bear in mind, this is just one test, one statistic. Don't make any rash conclusions. on it. Anti-virus software is no substitute for common sense. AV software will not save you from infecting your PC if you ignore best practice: Do not click on links or open attachments that arrive unexpectedly in e-mail or instant message.