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AV-Comparatives is an independent, well-known and well respected testing organization in the AV/Anti-Malware field. They recently published two reports and one meta-report:
Go read them if you have questions like "which product is the best for me?". Thank you Andreas for providing a great and impartial service.
PS. One surprising thing for me was the high detection rates in the dynamic test - upward of 90%. This indicates that either I'm too much of a cynic or that their crawler system still has room to improve - I would expect AV products to be around 60-70% effective against new threats.
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Quote: I would expect AV products to be around 60-70% effective against new threats.
ReplyDeleteOn December 9 we released a world wide press release 32% of Computers Still Infected, Despite Presence of Antivirus Program.
The report are statistics are gather during 55 days and come from 107.000+ computers. All found malware are identified as such by at least 2 renowned AV partners.
You can read the full report here.