DISCLAIMER: These detection rates represent the TRUE POSITIVE detection rates of these various antivirus tools on the limited corpus of malware binaries captures by our honeynet. The results do not take into consideration the false positive rate of a given tool, and thus a tool that declares everything to be infected would appear to have the highest true positive percentage rate. All antivirus results provided via www.virustotal.com.

Most Effective Antivirus Tools Against New Malware Binaries

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Missed = Malware binary miss count
Missed Logs = Full list of all missed malware binaries
Detects = Antivirus system overall detection rate based on exposure to 3269 malware binaries

Rank Detects Missed Missed Log Product Vendor CC Product URL
1st 97% 90 AntiVir_Missed_MD5s.html AntiVir Avira   www.free-av.com
2nd 96% 101 Webwasher-Gateway_Missed_MD5s.html Webwasher-Gateway Secure Computing   www.securecomputing.com
3rd 94% 167 Ikarus_Missed_MD5s.html Ikarus Ikarus Security Software   www.ikarus-software.at
4th 93% 205 BitDefender_Missed_MD5s.html BitDefender BitDefender Inc   www.bitdefender.com
5th 92% 253 AVG_Missed_MD5s.html AVG Grisoft Inc   www.grisoft.com
6th 91% 266 F-Secure_Missed_MD5s.html F-Secure F-Secure Corporation   www.f-secure.com
7th 89% 346 Avast_Missed_MD5s.html Avast ALWIL Software   www.avast.com
8th 89% 359 Sophos_Missed_MD5s.html Sophos Sophos Labs   www.sophos.com
9th 88% 365 Norman_Missed_MD5s.html Norman Norman Inc   www.norman.com
10th 85% 478 ClamAV_Missed_MD5s.html ClamAV SourceFire   www.clamv.net
11th 85% 481 Kaspersky_Missed_MD5s.html Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab   www.kaspersky.com
12th 84% 502 Microsoft_Missed_MD5s.html Microsoft Microsoft Corporation   www.microsoft.com
13th 84% 504 CAT-QuickHeal_Missed_MD5s.html CAT-QuickHeal Quick Heal Technologies   quickheal.co.in
14th 83% 538 VirusBuster_Missed_MD5s.html VirusBuster VirusBuster Ltd   www.virusbuster.hu
15th 82% 559 DrWeb_Missed_MD5s.html DrWeb Dr. Web   www.drweb.com
16th 80% 640 Rising_Missed_MD5s.html Rising Beijing Rising International Software   www.rising-global.com
17th 80% 647 Fortinet_Missed_MD5s.html Fortinet Fortinet Inc   www.fortinet.com
18th 80% 648 F-Prot_Missed_MD5s.html F-Prot Frisk Software International   www.f-prot.com
19th 79% 665 Symantec_Missed_MD5s.html Symantec Symantec Corporation   www.symantec.com
20th 79% 677 eTrust-Vet_Missed_MD5s.html eTrust-Vet Computer Associates   www.ca.com
21st 76% 765 TheHacker_Missed_MD5s.html TheHacker Hacksoft   www.hacksoft.com.pe
22nd 73% 869 McAfee_Missed_MD5s.html McAfee McAfee Inc   www.mcafee.com
23rd 73% 871 VBA32_Missed_MD5s.html VBA32 VirusBlokAda Ltd   www.anti-virus.by/en
24th 73% 875 AhnLab-V3_Missed_MD5s.html AhnLab-V3 AhnLab   www.ahnlab.com
25th 72% 915 Panda_Missed_MD5s.html Panda Panda Security   www.pandasecurity.com
26th 71% 929 Authentium_Missed_MD5s.html Authentium Authentium   www.authentium.com
27th 69% 997 NOD32v2_Missed_MD5s.html NOD32v2 ESET LLC   www.eset.com
28th 47% 1712 TrendMicro_Missed_MD5s.html TrendMicro Trend Micro   www.trendmicro.com
29th 27% 2370 Ewido_Missed_MD5s.html Ewido Ewido Networks   www.ewido.net
30th 25% 2443 Prevx1_Missed_MD5s.html Prevx1 Prevx Corporation   www.prevx.com
31st 7% 3036 Sunbelt_Missed_MD5s.html Sunbelt Sunbelt Software   www.sunbelt-software.co
32nd 0% 3270 FileAdvisor_Missed_MD5s.html FileAdvisor Bit9.com   fileadvisor.bit9.com