Which antivirus is best at removing malware?

[+Warwagon MVC]

Which antivirus is best at removing malware?

detecting the presence of malicious code is one thing, successfully eradicating it is entirely another.

According to AV-Comparatives.org?s recently released malware removal test evaluating the effectiveness of sixteen antivirus solutions, only a few were able to meet their criteria of not only removing the FakeAV, Vundo, Rustock and ZBot(Zeus) samples they were tested against, but also getting rid of the potentially dangerous ?leftovers? from the infection.

More info on the tested antivirus solutions , and how they scored:

The test, including the following antivirus solutions - Avast Professional Edition 4.8; AVG Anti-Virus 8.5; AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0; BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010; eScan Anti-Virus 10.0; ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0; F-Secure AntiVirus 2010; G DATA AntiVirus 2010; Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010; Kingsoft AntiVirus 9; McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009; Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0; Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.10; Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6; Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010; Trustport Antivirus 2009, relied on a modest malware sample, whose prevalence is however easily seen in the wild these days.

Their conclusion:

?None of the products performed ?very good? in malware removal or removal of leftovers, based on those 10 samples. eScan, Symantec and Microsoft (MSE) were the only products to be good in removal of malware AND removal of leftovers. Due to the sample size, the final ratings may be generous, but we applied the scoring tables strictly. We tried to give different values for different types of leftovers, although this was very difficult in some gray area cases.

av-comparative PDF http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stor...emoval_2009.pdf

Full article http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4818

[jnelsoninjax]

That is very interesting, but then again I never expected an A/V software to remove malware, but I just last night had to run a linux disk and do some hardcore virus scanning, and one the programs that was used was F-Prot , and I noticed that it seemed to pick up on things that were not just a virus, so when I saw this article I was intrigued by the results!

[ilovetech]

i am happy with norton 2010 though it performed only good & not "very good". results of MSE seems encouraging.

[Ci7]

that just reinforce my position to MSE :D

[ViZioN]

Nice one MSE (Y) Norton et al must surely be getting a little worried now?

[ZonoBurk]

that just reinforce my position to MSE :D

[Adrian0E]

That's good for MSE.

Too bad MSE keeps my RAM and CPU "busy" on my XP!

[guru]

MSE as good as kaspersky? wow