Virus Bulletin has released the test results of 34 anti-malware products. The test covers a range of metrics, including detection rates over various types of malware including adware and spyware, false positive rates, scanning speed, proactive detection, and response times to outbreaks.

The test are performed against 1,164,662 samples of malware and 94,291 samples samples of ad/spyware. The summary of the test:

- Best detection rate of malware and ad/spyware: GDATA’s AVK 2009 (99.80% for malware, 99.80% for ad/spyware)

AVK 2009 uses the Avast and BitDefender scan engines

- Best malware detection rate:

1. AntiVir (Avira) - 99.8%

2. AVK 2009 (GData) - 99.8%

3. WebWasher-GW –99.7%

4. Ikarus – 99.5%

5. TrustPort – 99.5%

[AV-Test release latest results @ Virus Bulletin]