A friend sent me the most recent newsletter from the makers of BOClean,
which contained the following section:
> This really isn't fair since we're a "vendor" but since other
> anti-malware vendors like to compare themselves to BOClean, we did a
> fast random sampling against some other programs with the catches we
> collected between May 10th, 2005 through the 13th. The test sample was
> based on a random selection of 100 of over 900 collected items in no
> particular order and done on the morning of the 13th. Distribution of
> samples was 33 from each of the three days including hijackers,
> keyloggers, and "bots" plus one additional nasty from the 10th to make
> it an even "100."
>
> BOClean - 100 of 100 (their last update - 05/13/05)
> Kaspersky - 42 of 100 (their last update - 05/13/05)
> TDS3 - 37 of 100 (their last update - 05/13/05)
> AVG - 6 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05) *
> Ewido - 5 of 100 (their last update - 05/13/05) *
> Symantec - 4 of 100 (their last update - 05/11/05) *
> TrojanHunter - 1 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05) *
> A2 Personal - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/09/05) *
> AdAware SE - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/10/05) *
> Avast - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05)
> SpyBot S&D - 0 of 100 (their last update - 04/27/05) *
> McAfee - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05 - beta 05/13/05) *
> MicrosoftMSAS- 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05) *
> NOD32 - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05)
> PestPatrol - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/05/05) *
> Sophos - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/13/05) *
> SpywareBlast - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/10/05) *
> SpySweeper - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05) *
> Tauscan - 0 of 100 (their last update - 05/12/05) *
>
> The tests were performed by an associate, and obviously the results are
> not reliable since the testing was based on samples submitted to us (as
> well as all OTHER vendors) by one of our own "spotters" who chose the
> samples and performed the test. Naturally, we would have a 100% score
> given that we update as soon as possible. Compare to other vendors that
> you depend on however. Dates displayed were those reported on DSL
> Reports' latest update list as of this writing.
>
> * indicates that the product was disabled by one or more samples tested
> in the course of evaluation. After the failure, products were restored
> prior to continue testing ... no disruptions of protection were counted
> in the total scoring of efficacy. Disabilities were the result of
> successful process termination by malware under test.
I'd been using one of the other antitrojan programs, but this was enough to
make me switch to BOClean!
You can make up your own minds about the results...
