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In October 1999, Virus
Bulletin, an authoritative international magazine on antivirus
security (published in the UK) tested antivirus scanners of the leading
antivirus developers. The magazine runs such tests (also known as
comparative reviews) bimonthly. The recent review deаlt with antivirus
scanners and memory-resident activity monitors for Windows 98.In latest tests, Doctor Web for Windows 95/98/NT and SpIDer Guard for Windows 95/98 earned the prestigious "Virus Bulletin 100%" award. Our products received this prize for achieving 100% detection against the "In the Wild" test-set, i.e. viruses that can be found in the real computer world.
It is the second VB100% given to Doctor Web in Virus Bulletin tests. The first one was granted to beta-version 4.04 in April, 1999. This time the prize was awarded to the commercial version of Doctor Web.
In addition to the scanner, we submitted our memory-resident activity monitor for testing - and again, as in last April, SpIDer Guard achieved an absolute detection rate!
It should also be noted that Doctor Web was able to detect 100% of polymorphic infectors. In polymorphic tests, this result has become traditional for Doctor Web. The full results are published in the November issue of Virus Bulletin.