"To recap, there were two sets of malware: Set A, which contains malware from December 2007 to December 2008 (of which most products could detect over 97 percent), and Set B, which contains malware from the last seven months (1.6 million samples). The set included the following categories of malware: Trojans (69.5 percent), Backdoors/Bots (20.7 percent), Worms (6.1 percent), other malware (1.5 percent), and Windows viruses (0.4 percent).
This test focused on malware being detected proactively, without being executed, using complex generic signatures, behavior analysis, heuristics, and so on. The idea is to see how well new malware can be caught without having to download new signatures, which is meant for filling in the gaps. That said, here are the proactive detection results (rounded to the nearest percent): " – Content courtesy of AV-Comparatives picks eight proactive antimalware winners
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