Comodo Antivirus 5.8 detection rate and heuristic test (by FaraVirusi.com Labs)

As many are wondering about Comodo’s total an heuristic detection rate, we, at FaraVirusi.com IT security blog decided to perform a complex test on 21.390 malwares.

As we wanted to be relevant and more interesting, we’ve put Avira Free as a comparative product, evaluated on the same malware set.

The results:

  • Comodo83.94% detection
  • Avira – 82.98% detection

For the heuristic detection rate, we’ve used 9150 infected files from 2 to 4 november 2011, while Comodo’s definition were freezed on the 27th of October.

Proactive detection rate was: 4274 (46.71%)

Additional details are available here: http://www.faravirusi.com/2011/11/06/avira-antivirus-free-2012-vs-comodo-antivirus-2012-test-al-detectiei-by-faravirusi-com/

Nice…
Great job! :-TU

thank you.

:-TU

Could you say what was proactive detection rate of Avira? That’s better to have them both here as well.