AV-Test Certifications July/August 2011

Maybe boot time. I am not sure about that one since I only reboot once a week or so.

What other factors, it is pretty good with ram, and very light on CPU & disk i/o. With that said, when I use it I do not do a full install. I use the toolbar, email scanner, link scanner, etc... I don't find them necessary.

 

I don't think so, Avast doesn't scan like that by default.

 

I just realized AV-Test uses over 200K samples for their Protection test, while AV-Comparatives used only 2480 for the first part of their Dynamic test. So would it be safe to assume AV-Test's results are much more representative of a product's real-time protection rate than AV-Comparatives?

Edit: I may have misread. Which sections in the protection part are real-time and which are on-demand? I assumed because it was protection that it was all real-time but I think I was wrong.

 

AFAIK only the "Protection against 0-day malware attacks, inclusive of web and e-mail threats (Real-World Testing)" is real-time and the rest are on-demand scans.

 

AV-Test usually uses no more than 30-80 samples per month for the "0-day" test.

 

So then AV-Comparatives actually uses a lot more samples in the real-world test. Does this mean their results are more accurate about an AV's protection?

 

yes, and not only that: AV-C reports describe the samples/cases are prevalent and really causing problems to users.

 

Who says that?

It seems to perform very well on performance tests, especially boot time. For example, it has the second least impact on boot time here.

 

And that test was with 2011. AVG 2012 is supposed to boot faster, use less memory, etc...

 

Not a great performance for Webroot.

 

For what it's worth - this is the 7.0 product still, not SecureAnywhere (which should be included in the next round of AV-Test/AV-C tests )