Sunday, May 22, 2011

AV-Comparatives Releases Preliminary Results For Their 2011 Whole Product Dynamic Test

AV-Comparatives has released their preliminary results through April 2011 of their Whole Product Dynamic Test. The companies with the top three products (preliminary results) are in order – Symantec, BitDefender and Eset. Avast in eighth, was the top free product. Seventeen companies were in the test. http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart2.php Results will be published in July. The latest revision for this test came out in April.

Notes for how the test was set up are available at http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/dyn/wpdt-general.pdf

In the August – November 2010 Whole Product Dynamic Test, F-Secure, Symantec, Avira, and Kaspersky had the top four products and received an advanced “three star" rating for the test. F-Secure fell to sixth and Avira to tenth in the preliminary Whole Product Dynamic Test for 2011.

About AV-Comparatives

AV-Comparatives is an Austrian Non-Profit-Organization. They provide independent Anti-Virus software tests free to the public. www.av-comparatives.org

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