Comparative tests of antivirus programs - 15-25 25 August 2006, from www.virus.gr.

Since December 2005, this 3-party organization virus.gr has announced their Anti-Virus detection-rate report version August 2006.

By the way, AOL Active Virus Shield is free antivirus software based on Kaspersky AV v6.0.0.299 with an AOL frontend GUI, thus the detection rate is the same as Kaspersky.

I list some famous ones as followings:

Rank Product Description Detection Rate
1 Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 99.62%
1 Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 99.62%
2 F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 96.86%
3 BitDefender Professional version 9 96.63%
8 AntiVir Personal version 7.01.01.02 95.45%
9 Nod32 version 2.51.30 95.14%
12 McAfee version 10.0.27 93.03%
21 Norton Professional version 2006 83.18%
22 AVG version 7.1.405 82.82%
24 Panda 2007 version 2.00.01 82.23%
26 PC-Cillin 2006 version 14.10.1051 80.90%
40 E-Trust version 7.2.0.0 50.36%
41 ZoneAlarm with VET Antivirus version 6.5.722.000 44.65%

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