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:
- Comodo – 83.94% 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/