AV-Comparatives: File Detection Test - September 2016

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by anon, Oct 13, 2016.

  1. anon

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  2. Ibrad

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    I'm interested to see how McAfee scores will change when they start testing with v15.1 with the Real protect engine
     
  3. NWOAbschaum

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    Avast had nice scores in some last test. there new technologies seems to work nice! thumps up for avast! :)
     
  4. Secure_Guy

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    What new technology are you talking about?
     
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    i read somewhere on the avast froum that the cloud got some improvments and heuristic. cant find the link anymore, sorry.
     
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  7. anon

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    ...... nice scores : champion of False Positives (Detection Rate:99.9 / False positive: 28 )
    http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart6&year=2016&month=9&sort=1

     
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  8. Krusty

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    Windows Defender scored worst only detecting 99% of malicious files. I guess I'll have to jump ship. :D
     
  9. anon

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    WD scored worst than the rest competitors.
    In F1, the last one is very fast too (only few seconds from the winner) but in the race results is the last car.
     
  10. Krusty

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    Yeah, I know. My machines still haven't had any infections yet.
     
  11. anon

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    If you know, why "I'll have to jump ship" then? :D
     
  12. Krusty

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    Sorry, that was just my sarcasm.
     
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    28 False Positives.
     
  14. TonyW

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    Which I'm sure have since been fixed by the time you read the report and would've only been an issue if you'd had the problematic file on your system at the time it was being flagged by AVAST, assuming you use AVAST as the anti-malware program of choice. I agree though that 28 is a lot but I wonder how many of those files anyone of us has on our systems anyway.
     
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    My machine also. And I use NO antivirus :confused: :D
     
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    Maybe it's time for the Microsoft prevalence based analysis of the File Detection Test.
     
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    Tough love...LOL.
     
  18. ance

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    ... but only if you like idiotic ads and pop ups all the time. :thumb:
     
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