AV-Comparatives: Certification Test based on AMTSO Real Time Threat List (RTTL) March 2016 http://www.av-comparatives.org/certification-tests/ A protection rate over 98% is required to get certified.
Thanks for posting. Interesting that MSE did well. Is this closer to the prevalence analysis Microsoft has been speaking about?
I am aware of those tests/reports. I stated that perhaps Microsoft did well with the RTTL due to their prevalence/telemetry analysis.
I think Microsoft has been referring to their Windows 10 "Windows Defender" as the new improved protection.
253 malwares used not mentioned, shady... samples submitted by vendors, pointless... the idea was good, the implementation messed up.
You can read about the samples used by AV-C in this test here: http://www.amtso.org/rttl/ Only problem I see with using such samples is by definition there are already "known" by a number of the AV vendors being tested since they submitted the some of the samples. This will definitely give the submitting samples vendors an edge in testing. To be completely unbiased, submitting sample vendors should be excluded from tests like this. Much better approach to catching 0-day malware is that used by NSS Labs. They set up a "honeypot" so to speak and continuous monitor activity for a two month period
If the AMTSO does the work well the bias should be minimised as malware comes with data on "prevalence and regions". In other words, how would you justify an AV not detecting a widespread and prevalent malware?