Some of the biggest names in the security industry have failed the latest Virus Bulletin 100 test. The test used 100 pieces of malware collected from active samples and put them up against a number of major security suites for Windows Server 2008.
Most of the major vendors, including McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft and Sophos, were able to pass the test. However, several others, including F-Secure, Kaspersky and Computer Associates, fell short of the certification. Other firms failing the test included Redstone, Avira, Microworld, Quick Heal and ArcaBit, whose ArcaVir product missed 93 samples and returned three falsitives.
Part of the criteria for receiving a VB100 award is that the anti-malware program cannot report a false positive alarm of malware when scanning a clean set of files. Avira AntiVir and Kaspersky Anti-Virus both had a single false positive report against different files in the clean set.