Antivirus Test: A Quest for Nearly Objective Rankings

These AV products were eliminated because they reported more malware than actually existed on the computer (false positives): Comodo, DrWeb CureIt, F-Secure and McAfee.

These AV products were eliminated because they caused miscellaneous problems on the test bed (read the individual entries for details): Protector, Sophos, Zondex and Zone Alarm. I offer no explanations why these AV products did not work. I simply report the results that occurred in my test bed.