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Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

This is NOT a repost. The original post was placed in the wrong forum and has been deleted.

Some time ago, I saw this really cool site that belonging to an individual that had tested scads of anti-virus products, rating how well they detected in-the-wild as well as other viruses. It gave rankings for heuristic detection, macro detection, Windows, DOS and possibly other viruses..

This chart was maintained by an individual. I seem to remember it having a yellow background, and resembled a very wide excel spreadsheet. Each product was given a rating (out of 100%), based on how many of the virus samples it was able to detect/deal with.

I can't find this thing anywhere using google, and I really want to bookmark it for future reference. Does anyone know what I'm referring to, and can someone provide a link.

Thanks.
permalink · 2004-08-31 19:27:49 · Print · Reply to this

IGGY
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

This might be it.

»www.rokop-security.de/main/artic···&order=0

There are a few others though. But none with a yellow background - at least that I can think of at this time.

Related

»www.claymania.com/tests-trojan.html

»www.av-test.org/

»Changing what is in Anti-Virus tests

»Heuristics av-test 10-2003 by checkvir.com!

»https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/tro···ests.htm

»www.thenakedpc.com/articles/v03/···-02.html

»www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec···459.html
permalink · 2004-08-31 22:58:50 · Print · Reply to this

jeisenberg
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

Thanks for your effort. None of these are what I had recalled. I'll keep looking. I'm wondering whether the chart was in a PDF form. The visual memory is vivid, but I just can't seem to nail it down.

The left column identified the various types of viruses and their counts (again, these included DOS, Windows, etc. and included trojans, viruses, macros). Each following column contained the name of an antivirus product and the score (number of detections and percentage score) for each type of threat. All the top virus company's products were there, along with several of the free ones, including the web-based scanners. It was an absolutely excellent side-by-side comparison. I can't believe I didn't bookmark it when I had the chance.
permalink · 2004-08-31 23:43:26 · Print · Reply to this

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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

Well crud. I really thought I'd nailed it with the first one. Oh well. Some decent alternative links all the same. Some of the data is old though. Sorry I couldn't be of better help. I tried.:)
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jeisenberg
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You did good Iggy!

Edited to add:

Actually, that first link would have been useful, had I known what I was searching for. It turns out that the site I wanted is mentioned on the site you turned up! However, without knowing the name of the site I wanted, it wasn't possible to know the connection existed!
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Doh!

Beaten to the punch, disregard this
permalink · 2004-09-01 01:40:25 · Reply to this

candes

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»www.av-comparatives.org/

permalink · 2004-09-01 01:39:41 · Reply to this

jeisenberg
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

That's the one!!!

Thank you, thank you!!!
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

That doesn't match the color scheme you mentioned in my mind. That is why I didn't post it. lol.:D Maybe my eyes failed me. But that link is here as well antivirus.iggyz.com
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

said by IGGY See Profile:
That doesn't match the color scheme you mentioned in my mind. That is why I didn't post it. lol.:D Maybe my eyes failed me. But that link is here as well antivirus.iggyz.com
I wouldn't be surprised one bit if it was your link that got me to that site in the first place.

Anyway, I figured you earned a "thumbs up" on speed and effort alone!
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

Actually to be honest. I think it's in my current bookmarks on my machine. Which I've not updated to online yet this week. So actually it may not be on the page right now.:o Because when I looked I didn't see it.:D

I'm going to solve that right now though. Should be linked twice there now though - soon.
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jeisenberg
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

That's alright. You get to keep your "thumbs up".

I wonder whether the guys who maintain the site »www.infosyssec.com/infosyssec/virwor1.htm would be interested in knowing about your link page. Yours is very comprehensive.
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IGGY
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not repost

Actually one user here took me to task for my simple links page recently. Yes it's simple and basic. Yes some of the bookmarks pages that have a few thousand links - can maybe make you think you browser has gone wanky for about a second.

But I do feel if you take the time to look around that page and the other bookmark pages. You'll find a ton of information and help. All those links are collected from around 1999 to present. So it's a fairly decent history archive in my opinion. It's not perfect. And one day I swear - I keep saying this - I'll fix dead links and dupes. I try to do this as I run into them. But I have some software I'll use to clean thinks up better - one of these days.

Your link is now there under AV-Comparatives Independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software.
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 I believe this site »www.av-comparatives.org/ was discussed in a couple of other threads. You might want to take a look at this post. »Anti-Virus Poll / Survey
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Re: Can't find antivirus comparison chart - not re

said by salzan See Profile:
I believe this site »www.av-comparatives.org/ was discussed in a couple of other threads. You might want to take a look at this post. »Anti-Virus Poll / Survey
Yeah, as I mentioned to Iggy, I was certain that I first found that site through a link here. Unfortunately, it's like trying to find the definition for a word you can't remember. You know it's in the dictionary... you just don't know where!
permalink · 2004-09-01 18:14:41 · Print · Reply to this
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