ANTIMALWARE SCANNING
To gauge each vendor's ability to detect and block malware found in the wild, we ran three tests using 8,114 recent malware specimens from a private collection graciously provided by antispam researcher Bill Stearns. Our zoo included a large variety of worms, bots, backdoors and viruses. For each test, we recorded the percentage of specimens not eradicated in each round of testing (See "Antimalware Scanning Results," PDF).

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[IMAGE] The good news
Trend Micro, CA and eEye all did very well, generally detecting and blocking or removing all but about 8 to 9 percent of the malware thrown at them.

The bad news
IBM ISS crashed several times, scoring so poorly as to cause us to double-check that the protection was enabled.
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Our first test was designed to evaluate each product's real-time signature-based defense...

We then performed an on-demand scan of all malware that survived our first test, to assess the combined real-time and on-demand scan capabilities for identifying and eradicating malware.

Finally, we conducted on-demand scanning independently by disabling real-time scanning, copying all malware to the target file system, and then executing a scan of the entire zoo.

Trend Micro, CA and eEye all did very well, generally detecting and blocking or removing all but about 8 to 9 percent of the malware we threw at them in all tests.

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Click here for our Antimalware Scanning results. (PDF).
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