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Antivirus software put to the test: Avira knows them all!

Tettnang, 30 May 2007 - The renowned AV-Test company, based in Magdeburg, tested the most popular anti-virus programs for their detection rate. Avira AntiVir was clearly the best in its class.

The virus protection software of the most renowned providers had to deal with a wide variety of viruses in the test: over 600,000 Trojans, worms, backdoor programs and bots were let loose on the test computers, all malware programmed for Windows operating systems, no older than 12 months.

The test results of the competing virus protectors were very tight, regarding the detection of worms and bots. But when it came to identification of Trojans, which frequently infiltrate to spy out PINs and passwords, the wheat was separated from the chaff.

In the case of virus protection software, that works with only one engine and therefore requires reduced memory space, Avira AntiVir clearly took the first place, detecting 99.42% of the malware. Next came the software giants Symantec and Kaspersky.

Based on the number of undetected viruses and the average figure of the tested programs, the result is surprising: the Avira scanner reduces the possibility of a virus infection by a factor of 25, compared with the average (see graph 1).

Graph 1: Relative detection performance	Graph 2: Infection risk caused by undetected viruses

Another interesting comparison based on the detection rate: if you compare the risk of infection, of all the tested single engine products, with the figure achieved by Avira (3,493 of 606,901), the infection risk of the nearest competitors Symantec and Kaspersky is four times higher. The product with the lowest rank has a factor as high as 65 (see graph 2).

Avira AntiVir's secret to success is the company's own innovative AHeAD technology (Advanced Heuristic Analysis and Detection), which has repeatedly won the first place in numerous tests.

Further information:
PC Magazine: "AV-Test.org Reports Stats from Antivirus Roundup"
AV-Test.org

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