AntiVirus programs: reaction time rankings

[bellgamin]

Full article HERE (http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/article.php/3316511)

Synopsis...
Just how long is the period between a new virus getting "into the wild" and an effective antidote getting into your computer's anti-virus arsenal?

To answer this vital question, AV-Test.org {a research group from Magdeburg University, Germany} conducted independent research to establish the reaction time of antivirus developers to new malicious code. This research was designed to discover the average time taken to release an anti-virus database update from the moment a new virus is first detected.

Here are their findings as to the lag times FROM discovery of a new nasty {virus, worm, trojan} UNTIL the issuance of a signature file to detect that nasty...
Hours:Minutes|Anti-Virus Program
06:51 Kaspersky
08:21 Bitdefender
08:45 Virusbuster
09:08 F-Secure
09:16 F-Prot
09:16 RAV
09:24 AntiVir*
10:31 Quickheal
10:52 InoculateIT-CA
11:30 Ikarus
12:00 AVG*
12:17 Avast*
12:22 Sophos
12:31 Dr. Web
13:06 Trend Micro
13:10 Norman
13:59 Command
14:04 Panda
17:16 Esafe
24:12 A2*
26:11 McAfee
27:10 Symantec
29:45 InoculateIT-VET
*These AVs have free versions

Here are data on the number of signature updates per week...
Kaspersky Labs about 20
Panda 7
F-Secure 6-7
Dr.Web 6
AntiVir (H+BEDV) 5 - 6 *
eSafe (Aladdin) 5
eTrust (CA) 4 - 5
F-Prot (Frisk) 4 - 5
Sophos 4 - 5
VirusBuster 4 - 5
Ikarus 4
Quickheal 4
BitDefender 3 - 4
Trend Micro 2 - 3
Avast! (Alwil) 2 *
AVG (Grisoft) 2 *
Command 2
Norman 2
Symantec 1 - 2
McAfee/NAI 1
*These AVs have free versions

aloha...........bellgamin