AV-Comparatives: Real World Protection Test - July 2016

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by anon, Aug 16, 2016.

  1. anon

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  2. Secondmineboy

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    How the heck did AVG get 100 Percent?
     
  3. anon

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  4. entropism

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    AVG detection has been pretty spectacular for the past 6-12 months. It's the rest of the program that has massive issues.

    Eset and Avast kicked it up on this test. Makes them intriguing options again (for me), especially with how light Avast is these days.
     
  5. avman1995

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    Lavasoft on top!?
     
  6. anon

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    Lavasoft (3rd party Engine: Bitdefender) ;)
    http://www.av-comparatives.org/av-vendors/

     
  7. haakon

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    Apparently they've been doing a better job with integrating the Bitdefender Core, B-HAV and AVC SDKs, among other BD components, into their Lavasoft product. (This is still a dual-engine product.) No doubt they've improved their Companion look-ups product as well, perhaps integrating BD's Nimbus servers.

    Once again, another useless effort at dispelling the mythology:
    "Bitdefender engine" does not equal Bitdefender.
    Well, unless you prefer to sound like you're still in the previous decade. ;) When BD Core was the engine.
     
  8. anon

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    I don't prefer anything. ;)
    Just I wrote what the link says: Lavasoft (3rd party Engine: Bitdefender)
    http://www.av-comparatives.org/av-vendors/
     

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    I find that people who like BitDefender REALLY like bitdefender, and are very, very defensive when you mention other AVs use their engine. Like they had a vested stake in them being "the best". It's a really odd phenomenon.
     
  10. Nightwalker

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    There arent many people like that, but they sure are very vocal.
     
  11. haakon

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    "i reads it on teh webbuhnetz what it is so thats it is"

    The use of the word engine on the av-comp page is obsolete (and as many might opine, so is the testing), it should read Third Party SDK or more accurately Partner.

    It should also be noted that for Checkpoint, Kaspersky engine does not equal Kaspersky. Etc. etc. etc.

    Fortunately I'm not one of the people who are very, very defensive about third-party SDK proliferation. Thank you for presenting the opportunity to point that out. My post #7 lauds Lavasoft for their success with the BD SDKs. And it's about time.

    I'm very vocal about the use of obsolete or improper terminology within a technical construct. As much as anyone would be about the use of "carburetor" in discussions of late model induction systems in superbike forums.

    It's so sad that in this technical venue, everyone thinks like... carburetor.

    I don't REALLY like Bitdefender, except I picked up a 3-PC Internet Security license for $20 when I was shopping around a few months ago. Could've been Avira. Next year I'll shop again. Could be AVG. (I've personally used BD off and on and supported it in the enterprise for ~15 years, so given similar price points, I'll always go with it.)

    What I don't like are locks, alarm systems, guards, checkpoints...

    What I don't like is my "smart" phone Caller ID can show a local number and it's some slime bag somewhere on the globe trying to scam me. I pay $70 a month for that.

    In fact, I don't like any AV or suite or "companion protection."

    But, all those are life.

    SDK! Get it right, for crying out loud. :) Unless you're talking about a specific engine itself, i.e bdcore.dll, avccore.dll, ascore.dll, each the base of their respective carburetor. Uh, SDK.
     
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  12. Ibrad

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    I'm really surprised Emsisoft had so many user dependents compared to other Bitdefender SDK products. I am curious what they are doing different, or if other products have moved to using the Bitdefender Cloud, etc.
     
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    Thanks anon....:)
     
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    Why aren't they using the correct term 'SDK'? Any contributions to make on this, @IBK?
     
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    ... but the free Lavasoft doesn't use Bitdefender core/engine? :doubt:
     
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    EMIS uses it's own behavior blocker. Nor sure about it's on access File Guard. I believe that EMIS only uses BD for on demand scanning.

    User dependent doesn't bother me, given it's 100% detection rate. The pop-up warning usually gives a clear reccomendation.

    I am more concerned about false positives.

    Not sure how AVC defines a FP. I often see a file detected during a scan, but described as "No Risk." Wondering if AVC counts those as FPs. The past several months EMIS has had 100% detections, whith user intervevtions, but high FPs.
     
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    I thought Emsisoft AM/IS uses a dual-scanner, that is, BD and their own.
     
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    Emsisoft's behavior blocker will query the user for action under certain circumstances. examples can be seen in the december 2015 summary report (http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avc_sum_201512_en.pdf) from av-c.
     
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    It does. They switched from Vipre to Bitdefender a long time ago.

    http://www.lavasoft.com/products/compare.php
     
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    Nice to see Windows Defender coming on strong.
     
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    Yep, and that's bad news for 3rd party av lovers...
     
  22. entropism

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    Until you look at the performance tests... I am glad Defender is doing well simply because the tech illiterate will now have a decent defense against crap in the wild. I'd still never put it on my machines.
     
  23. Osaban

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    I can appreciate WD improving its detection potential, it is indeed acceptable if one has other layers (in my case Sandboxie for example), but the problem IMO is its impact on performance, you would think being embedded with Windows it should be light as a feather, but it is not really, at least on my fast computer.

    I have time and again had the opportunity to see the difference between my choice in my signature and WD on its own: very noticeable. Now I'm not saying that WD slows the computer to the point of being unacceptable, but I like a fast OS, probably my first priority...
     
  24. roger_m

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    That's my experience too, on many computers. After reading some of the comments here in the last 6 months or so, it has become apparent that Windows Defender is actually a good antivirus. But it causes too much of a system impact for me to use it. I also agree that WD should be lighter since it comes with Windows. It's a shame it's not.
     
  25. Macstorm

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    Hi Osaban. One of the reasons of my choice for WD is precisely its 'lightness' on my old computer (on par with Avira, Kaspersky and others, in my experience) BUT much more 'unobtrusive' than the others, no notifications, no toolbars, no launchers, no surprises...

    Now, performance wise, no solution can beat Emsisoft AM on my rig, and I'm sure about it after having tried almost every av out there through years. Still, I put full confidence in WD on Windows 10.
     
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