Virus Bulletin (VB) conducted its latest test in November, posting the
results this month. The security research company evaluated 43 antimalware
products (product submission deadline was October 28) for the 32-bit version of
Windows 7 Professional. The basic requirements for a product passing the test is
detecting, both on demand and on access, in its default settings, all malware
known to be "In the Wild" at the time of the review, and not detecting any false
positives when scanning a set of clean files. The products were pitted against
about thousands of unique samples of malware that fall into four categories:
WildList viruses, worms and bots, polymorphic viruses, and Trojans.
