Chappy

Hiya Guys

John, Eset holds the record for consecutive VB100% awards. I thought it was 43 but I'm either mistaken or some have gone missing recently. Eset also boasted this on their website but that has also been removed. They do hold the most VB100%'s by any vendor now, at 51, and 0 false positives since VB started testing in 1998.
3 Fails in 54 submissions, 1 for DOS, 1 for early NT, and 1 for Suse Linux, but 100% on all platforms since 2002.
Their heuristics engine is still considered the most advanced in the Biz, Nod32 is my #1 recommendation. Kaspersky was my #2 but they had update issues this year that made the scanner nearly useless for awhile. Plus they had 2 fails last year and 1 already this year...not so good so I've stopped recommending them until they pick it up. They fixed those update issues fairly quickly once found but I think that just shows a lack of competence in their engineers right now.
I haven't had the time to research a new #2 recommendation yet but I will soon.

WildEagle - Actually my friend, Symantec has 39 consecutive VB100% awards. They usually do very well in "In the Wild" and 0 false positives, it's their bloat and resource usage that irks everyone...that and the fact that their uninstall routines are notoriously horrible for removing Symantec and Norton items...and that's not by accident either. I have found over 85 Symantec objects left on a machine (XP Pro SP2) after the uninstaller has run. You have to use a secondary tool to remove any of those others, it's not readily available to regular users, and that's just unacceptable IMO. And it STILL doesn't remove everything...