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Comparing Detection Capabilities of AntiVirus Products: An Empirical Study with Different Versions of Products from the Same Vendors

Algaith, A., Gashi, I., Sobesto, B. , Cukier, M., Haxhijaha, S. & Bajrami, G. (2016). Comparing Detection Capabilities of AntiVirus Products: An Empirical Study with Different Versions of Products from the Same Vendors. In: 2016 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshop. (pp. 48-53). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/DSN-W.2016.45

Abstract

In this paper we report results of an empirical analysis of the detection capabilities of 9 AntiVirus (AV) products when they were subjected to 3605 malware samples collected on an experimental network over a period of 31 days in NovemberDecember 2013. We compared the detection capabilities of the version of the AV products that the vendors make available for free in VirusTotal versus the full capability products that they make available via their own website. The analysis has been done using externally observable properties of the AV products: namely whether they detect a given malware. The paper reports extensive analysis of the results. A surprising finding of our study was that only one of the vendors had a full capability version which detected all the malware that their VirusTotal version could detect.

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Publisher Keywords: AntiVirus products; security assessment; quantitative assessment; empirical studies
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Computer Science > Software Reliability
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