For those who haven’t made a habit of downloading and
looking at the many test reports test
group AV-Comparatives publishes, their AV-Comparatives Summary Report of
anti-virus products has been released. Some of the products in the test were the
company’s internet security offerings. The report lists the winners in a number
of categories:
- Overall winner
- Top rated products
- Real world protection test
- File detection
- False positives
- Overall performance
- Proactive (heuristic/behaviors)
- Malware removal
Congratulations to BitDefender for being product of the year, receiving 3 stars in all the tests! Two other companies achieved this level with their products, Kaspersky, and Eset.
Most of the products tested were “paid” versions, products from Panda, LavaSoft, and Avast being the exceptions. Among these three, Panda was the “winner”, finishing twelfth overall. In alphabetical order, the bottom three companies were AhnLab, McAfee, and ThreatTrack Vipre.
This 151 page report also contains an extensive user
interface review section of almost two dozen products. One of the companies on the list even begins
with an S. Sorry. It’s not
Symantec. One of these days, they’ll
step up and be tested.
The demise of anti-virus products and companies offering them is vastly
pre-mature. The endpoint needs
protection. The level of protection provided by these products is superior to
that provided years ago, when heuristic technology wasn’t in many endpoint
solutions, and there were no cloud solutions for the endpoint. Leave your laptop or tablet unprotected at your own risk!
This report demonstrates quite clearly that the market share
leaders in the endpoint security space are not necessarily providing the best
security nor performance. Kaspersky, and
Eset, are known in the industry but not as much to the public. But you can buy them online and in some
stores.
BitDefender has an active and successful
OEM program for their antimalware engine. Download and take a look at the AV-Comparatives Anti-Virus
Comparative Report. It’s free. And in
2015, do look at their other reports.
You can also go onto their site and view their results from their
dynamic Real World Test. http://www.av-comparatives.org/dynamic-tests/
About AV-Comparatives (www.av-comparatives.org )
AV-Comparatives is an independent organization offering
systematic testing that checks whether security software, such as PC/Mac-based
antivirus products and mobile security solutions, lives up to its promises.
Using one of the largest sample collections worldwide, it creates a real-world
environment for truly accurate testing.
AV-Comparatives offers freely accessible results to individuals, news
organizations and scientific institutions. Currently, the AV-Comparatives' Real-World
Protection Test is the most comprehensive and complex test available when it
comes to evaluating the real-life protection capabilities of antivirus software
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