I think the image above that I put together sums things up quite well. Virus Bulletin did another “in the wild” test to see how many of the best antivirus solutions available would be able to catch every known virus they threw at it. Normally out of the 30+ apps that are tested 5 or 6 of them fail, but this time around over 50% of them came up short.
I know I know, there are a lot of no name antivirus programs out there that are seemingly doomed to failure, but some of the most widely used programs couldn’t even get things right. The complete list of failed programs is below, but among them are Avast!, AntiVir, Kaspersky, Norman, Sophos, and Trend Micro. All big names that couldn’t even identify viruses the entire world knows about. *sigh* It’s not like they created their own viruses just for the test.
Here are the results of the test, which were all done on a Windows 2000 machine:
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