[evilfantasy]

This subject has been kicked around here before. Smaller download size equals less resources.

Also as Dave stated. AVG misses a lot of stuff. When it does find things it alerts you, but then fails to do anything to prevent the attack.

Notice AVG failed this test.

Originally Posted by evilfantasy

A-Squared Found TrojanSimulator.TestFile
AntiVir Found SPR/TrojanSimulat.2
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found Win32:TrojanSim
AVG Antivirus Found nothing
BitDefender Found Application.TrojanSimulator
ClamAV Found nothing
Dr.Web Found Program.AVTest
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
Fortinet Found W32/EICAR!tr
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found Win32/TrojanSimulator application
Norman Virus Control Found W32/TrojanSim.A
Panda Antivirus Found nothing
Rising Antivirus Found nothing
Sophos Antivirus Found Mal/Behav-053
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found Joke.Trojan.Simulator

The full conversation: http://www.thecomputerforums.co.uk/f...705/#post21943

[evilfantasy]

Also polls are unreliable. This is more accurate.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/