AV Signature Update Statistics

The following overview shows the update frequency of the different anti-virus vendors. Since 2009-01-01, we stored 221,296 updates in our database.

Right after the name of the vendor or product, you can find the number of updates within the last 7 days. Furthermore you can find the time of the last available update. Please click on the product or vendor name to show a detailed update history. You can also compare the update frequencies of max. 15 selected products.

Please note that the pure numbers (quantity) is not directly corresponding to the performance (quality) of the different products. So you should make sure that the updates are provided around the clock and not only at certain weekdays or certain times of the day.

We use GMT as time zone.



Vendor / Product    ascending descending Number of Updates    ascending descending Last Update    ascending descending
 Authentium Command Anti-Malware 21 2010-03-11, 12:10:00
 avast! 4 Anti-Virus 15 2010-03-10, 14:40:00
 AVG Anti-Virus 9.0 29 2010-03-11, 11:20:00
 Avira AntiVir Premium 35 2010-03-11, 17:05:00
 BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010 107 2010-03-11, 18:30:00
 CA Anti-Virus 11 2010-03-11, 11:20:00
 Clam Anti-Virus 53 2010-03-11, 17:50:00
 Cybersoft VFind 6 2010-03-11, 10:05:00
 Dr.Web Anti-Virus 126 2010-03-11, 13:05:00
 Eset NOD32 Anti-Virus 23 2010-03-11, 17:55:00
 F-Secure Anti-Virus 2010 52 2010-03-11, 15:35:00
 Fortinet 24 2010-03-11, 12:45:00
 Fortinet (beta definitions) 32 2010-03-11, 16:50:00
 G Data Anti-Virus 2010 134 2010-03-11, 17:45:00
 IBM ISS Proventia-VPS 1 2009-01-19, 21:45:00
 Ikarus virus.utilities 43 2010-03-11, 17:45:00
 K7 Anti-Virus 7.0 6 2010-03-11, 15:40:00
 Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 51 2010-03-11, 15:00:00
 McAfee Gateway Edition (WebWasher) 45 2010-03-11, 17:25:00
 McAfee VirusScan 2010 8 2010-03-11, 17:35:00
 McAfee VirusScan 2010 (beta definitions) 209 2010-03-11, 18:05:00
 Microsoft Security Essentials 25 2010-03-11, 14:50:00
 Norman Anti-Virus 8 2010-03-11, 11:35:00
 Panda Anti-Virus 2010 15 2010-03-11, 16:05:00
 Panda Anti-Virus 2010 (beta definitions) 294 2010-03-11, 18:15:00
 Quick Heal Anti-Virus 2010 18 2010-03-11, 16:00:00
 Rising Antivirus 2009 23 2010-03-11, 07:20:00
 Sophos Anti-Virus 46 2010-03-11, 16:00:00
 Spybot Search & Destroy 2 2010-03-10, 10:35:00
 Sunbelt Vipre 55 2010-03-11, 17:00:00
 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus (beta definitions) 210 2010-03-11, 17:55:00
 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2008 21 2010-03-11, 17:30:00
 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2009/2010 1,907 2010-03-11, 18:35:00
 Trend Micro Anti-Virus+Anti-Spyware 11 2010-03-11, 12:20:00
 Trend Micro OfficeScan 10 2010-03-11, 11:25:00
 Trend Micro OfficeScan (beta definitions) 93 2010-03-11, 18:20:00
 VBA32 Anti-Virus 4 2010-03-10, 19:20:00
 VirusBuster 14 2010-03-11, 17:00:00
 Webroot Anti-Virus 29 2010-03-11, 15:35:00