Mohammad Mobasseri, Senior Product Manager, ComGuard FZ-LLC
 Mohammad.mobasseri@comguard.net

 

 
  Choosing the best Anti Virus Solution

 A few salient attributes that you must check for before you choose an Anti Virus solution

  • Detection rate of known malware.

  • Response speed to new malware threats.

  • Update frequency of signature database by the service provider.

  • Size of update file.

  • Effectiveness  and proactiveness of the software to prevent attacks.

  • File formats supported.

  • Ability for spyware protection.

  • Ability to minimize false alarms.

  • Optimizing usage of system resource, while security level is set to  good mode.


  How Reliable is Your Antivirus Protection?

 

Detection

Rate

Number of Viruses

NOT DETECTED

Infection Probability,

per 100 attacks

Great Antivirus

99,99%

<100

<1%

Fair Antivirus

98%

~10 000

>85%

Bad Antivirus

95%

~25 000

>95%

Not Reliable Antivirus

80%

~100 000

>99,9%

  Independent Test Centers of Anti Virus
 

To check how reliable your Anti-Virus is and to find out above mentioned feature you could check following independent test centers and vendors website to check products features.

Some of the test centers are:

1 – http://www.av-comparatives.org/

2 – www.av-test.org

3 – www.virusbtn.com

4 - http://www.firewallleaktester.com/

5 - www.pcworld.com

6 – www.cnet.com  

So with the detailed information, references and test results available, you will be arrive at the best Anti Virus solution that protects your system .