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AV Comparatives Results- Best and Less AV’s

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AV Comparatives Results- Best and Less AV’s

from JoeUser Forums

 

AV comparatives tested a slew of antivirals and has published it’s results. They do this testing every three months.

This isn’t supposed to be a “mine’s better than yours” post. It is meant to help you decide which software you might wish to obtain to protect your computer/s. Bear in mind the limitations of the testing (see my last paragraph).

The software tested:

 

“Seven products attained the ADVANCED+ rating: Avira, BitDefender, eScan, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, and TrustPort. Kaspersky, Trustport, and McAfee all moved up, having rated ADVANCED in last August's on-demand test.

Avast!, ESET, G Data, and Panda would have received the same top rating, but false positives knocked them down to ADVANCED. Microsoft, Norton, and Sophos also rated ADVANCED. That's a step down for Symantec, which rated ADVANCED+ in the last test.

AVG and PC Tools passed the test, receiving a STANDARD rating; both scored better in the last test. Qihoo, which also rated STANDARD, doesn't have many users in this country, so PCMag hasn't reviewed it.

Three products failed to reach STANDARD: K7, Trend Micro, and Webroot. K7 simply scored low for detection; it achieved a STANDARD rating last time. Webroot, tested for the first time, also scored low, and suffered false positives to boot. [After initial release of these findings, AV-Comparatives raised Trend Micro's rating to STANDARD.]

AV-Comparatives also timed how fast each product scanned files. The fastest scanners, in descending speed order, were avast!, Panda, K7, and Webroot. Microsoft and PC Tools were the slowest of this bunch.” – Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383615,00.asp

One thing is clear to me. AV Comparatives tests on XP SP3 Core 2 Duo E8300/Intel 2.3 GHz Processors, 2Gb RAM machines (keep in mind when looking at scan speeds), and these were run on known batteries of trojans/virus/back doors, etc. not on the web.

Also important to note is they did not test “behavior aware” software. To me that is a large minus in their testing.

FYI.

I recommend you review the results for yourselves, straight from the horse’s mouth:

Source: http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_feb2011.pdf

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

You will get hammered now.

That's the old mantra from the days when malware was a novelty and common sense and occasional manual intervention were all it took to instantly fix things.  It ain't that world no more.

It's a safer mantra for people with set habits who visit predictably the same established sityes and nothing else on a regular basis.  My work entails software trisals, patches and the like as well as research which requires occasionally visiting places I can't vet as safe or sure in advance.

With the sort of malware about now, "I've never had a problem" is simply responded to with, "Not that you know.".

I didn't run Av softwaqre for two years after viruses and the like a hit public awareness and I was finding rootkits two years before they were ever publicly discussed.  I run AV software and lots of it regularly because I do more with my comp than download mail from m y website..

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting kona0197, reply 25



Quoting DrJBHL,
reply 24
Antmalware Bytes

Quoting kona0197,
Don't you mean "Malewarebytes"?
End of kona0197's quote

Malewarebytes? Do you mean Malwarebytes?  lol   :moo:

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Doc, I do use MSE real time scanning, MalwareBytes for on demand scanning, and Spybot S&D and sometimes HiJack This.

 

MSS, is that the thing from the other thread, the one you reinstall every ten days?

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

No, it's the one that renews its definitions signatures every 10 days if you choose to run it.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 29
No, it's the one that renews its definitions signatures every 10 days if you choose to run it.
End of DrJBHL's quote
ok, so I must have read it wrong. I'll have another look. Thanks!

 

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but this reads like you reinstall it every ten days.

 

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

But, then again, maybe it doesn't ever "install" to begin with. Now that would make more sense.

Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 23

Quoting Dr Guy, reply 1Looks like I will be evaluating Avast now!  Thanks for the link.  great topic!


 

Avast flags my DX gadgets and widgets as malware and deletes them. A huge minus in my book. As Jafo once said, this is probably as result of heuristic scanning.

I am hanging tight with MSE, ATM.
End of RedneckDude's quote

Damn!  I have loaded it on my main machine (just reformatted and re-installed).  I will have to watch it.  So far, I like what I see, but if it starts to flag my utilities as bad, I will have to switch back.  Thanks - forewarned is forearmed

Reply #34 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Dr, reply 33
Damn!  I have loaded it on my main machine (just reformatted and re-installed).  I will have to watch it.  So far, I like what I see, but if it starts to flag my utilities as bad, I will have to switch back.  Thanks - forewarned is forearmed
End of Dr's quote

I think it likely there is an option somewhere to make it not remove things detected  via heuristics, though whether or not it will work is another matter (in the case of Norton AV, the option exists but does not work).