Tuesday
Feb022010
Immunet beats out Microsoft Security Essentials and Avira in MRG Rogue AV Test!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 12:25PM | Alfred Huger Immunet Protect Beta 1.0.24 was recently put through its paces by the folks over at Malware Research Group (MRG). MRG is doing a well thought out monthly review of 30 anti-malware products to see how well they detect fresh, real world, active Rogue Anti-Virus programs. The report titled “Rogue Software Infection Prevention Test, January” showed Immunet Protect Beta performed quite handily. In fact, we beat out both Microsoft Security Essentials and Avira at detecting these in-field threats. It’s great vindication for our community (and the development team of course..), particularly given we are in beta with some ways to go before all of our detection engines are deployed!
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Reader Comments (12)
Yes, you beat Avira and MSE but...
Avira didn't perform well because the function to detect unwanted programmes wasn't checked. In fact, it came bottom.
I am using Immunet, but the headline is blatant misuse of PR using Avira's well known position as a top-class anti-virus.
Immunet's performance wasn't great but neither was it bad.
I look forward to you coming out of beta and being tested as that's when I will take notice of the results.
Ian
I have to agree with Ian. While I am excited about Immunet as a product, and glad to see if perform decently on this test, the test itself was not exactly comprehensive. And the results are skewed by Avira not properly setting their defaults.
Anyway, I'm on to testing the new build.
Avira was tested with default setting, with full settings enebled it missed 7 rouges. I guess thats pretty close to Immunet who missed 10.
Woodrow
Who cares how the product performs with full settings enabled. Most people use default settings.... Maybe Avira should change their default setting.
Sure, it beat two particular apps, but it was comprehensively beaten by a number of others, meaning that the Immunet team has a lot of work to do to make it as effective as they'd like it to be. I run NOD32 as my main AV product and with results like these, I'm wondering if Immunet is worth running with NOD32 - it is definitely worth running alongside MS Security Essentials.
Unfortunately, Malwarebytes and even Ad-Aware Free still blows Immunet out of the water.
Fortunately, Immunet has a good team and these results should spur them on to make Immunet better than it is - there's currently no really worthwhile laurels on which they can rest! :)
It is useless for real world evaluation to test AV's with settings other than their default. Most people trust the experts (those who made the AV) to give them the correct protection out of the box... not to mention that false positives normally rise in proportion to the extra (non-default) settings.
PJ
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Immunet missed 10 out of 30. MSSE missed 16 out of 30. Many of those missed by both were the same. Huge room for improvement in BOTH. I run Threatfire and Spybot SD - Resident with these two. Just to block any holes. This combination of active protection runs without conflict on my XP3 machine and does not overly hog my available CPU memory. I also have the free version of Malware Bytes installed. I keep all updated almost daily and run scans at least weekly on a staggered basis during down time.
Curious about any future tests of ClamAV/Immunet marriage. It is offered at Sourcefire so I am assuming both are going to continue to be offered seperate and together. Could prove to be one hell of a good combo once Immunet is up and running all engines. Only time will tell...
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I agree,it is a misleading test.When all the settings that actually cover rogue applications is closed,how should Avira see these treats??
When you test the security applications,you should set all settings to high,like most people would do.