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Of the 43 products submitted for testing 32 were awarded VB100
certification, and some excellent detection rates were observed.
Of the 11 products that failed to meet the criteria for
certification, most were tripped up by false alarms.

VB Anti-Malware Test Director John Hawes said: "While false
positives are serious, even the best of products occasionally
fall victim to the odd false alarm - as always, we advise users
to take a longer-term view, monitoring vendors’ performance over
longer periods to get a true picture of their reliability."

The results of the RAP (’Reactive And Proactive’) tests
conducted at the same time also showed some decent scores, with
the upper right-hand corner of the quadrant (high reactive and
proactive detection rates) becoming increasingly crowded with
vendors turning out good performances.

VB’s cumulative RAP quadrant gives a quick visual reference as
to products’ reactive and proactive detection rates. The RAP
quadrant is available at
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Dec10-Jun11-850.jpg

For the first time this month Virus Bulletin is offering the
detailed report - usually only available to Virus Bulletin
subscribers - for non-subscribers to purchase as a standalone
item priced at $19.95. The report provides a wealth of data that
gives a vital insight into how the various solutions stack up
against each other in a wide range of ways, including some
detailed performance analysis as well as detection rates and the
testing team’s thoughts on the user experience. Non-subscribers
can purchase the report from
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/list

Virus Bulletin has been testing and certifying anti-malware
products for more than ten years in the VB100 certification
scheme. The stringent VB100 tests pit anti-malware products
against a test set of malware from the WildList - a publicly
available up-to-date list of the malware that is known to be
circulating on computers around the world. To earn VB100
certification, products must be able to detect 100% of the
malware contained in the WildList test set and must not generate
any false alarms when scanning a set of clean files.

Virus Bulletin’s RAP testing measures products’ detection rates
across four distinct sets of malware samples. The first three
test sets comprise malware first seen in each of the three weeks
prior to product submission and measure how quickly product
developers and labs react to the steady flood of new malware. A
fourth test set consists of malware samples first seen in the
week after product submission. This test set is used to gauge
products’ ability to detect new and unknown samples proactively,
using heuristic and generic techniques.

The pass/fail results of the June 2011 VB comparative review can
be viewed (free of charge) at
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/test?id=163

A PDF copy of the comparative review is available to journalists
at http://www.virusbtn.com/files/VB100-201106.pdf Please do not
reproduce this link.

A description of the RAP testing methodology can be seen at
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml