AV Comparatives Retrospective/Proactive Test

To me Panda and F-Secure are the real winners of that particular test. Congrats and Hats-off. .

Thanks.

 

Congratulations to Sophos for the Huge improvement in Retrospective & Proactive testing in rising from 32% to 58 %! That's a huge improvement!

 

Wonder how many users AVAST will loose?

 

In may 2010 proactive test avast scored 29%, now in november 2010 test avast scored 43%....that's an improvement in my opinion
anyway these proactive test don't mean much to me because in my opinion av should always be updated, so it is very unlikely that a user will browse the web with a 2 months old virus database....if he can browse the web and have access to the internet why wouldn't he update the virus database?

 

But your updated Avast won't detect all malware out there with the latest signatures. Therefore it's important to detect unknown malware (proactive detection) as well

 

Not many. Avast has evolved to becoming somewhat in the nature of a religious order of sorts.

 

what a boring report if i say so,

I think Avast performed quite well, its just the others got great scores too.

 

that's true. but for unknown malware there is always sandboxie, hips, common sense etc. no av out there can detect 100% even with super heuristics so there should always be a second layer of defense and common sense

 

I'm giving Panda Cloud a spin at the moment. Apart from it stopped scanning on 95% on Scan my computer, everything seems fine. I'll wait until the free version of Bit defender.br is translated into English before I move on - might be a long wait.

 

ah depending on signature is old school.. I keep a fresh image handy

 

this result is similar to what i expected with few exception:
* Bitdefender having few fp ( good work !! )

*f -secure scoring very good ( i knew it would score good but it has emerged as top with very low fp and good detection )

* gdata having low fp ( lol , i still cant believe it )


rest is all as expected

overall , i think winner would be ESET being best in detection yet one of the fastest security suite
Congrats !!

 

I do not know, but I guess it will be many .
(November 2009) -> (May 2010) -> (November 2010).....(53% + 5 FP) -> (29% + 11 FP) -> (43% + 9 FP)
For a heuristic unstable over time, I do not go unnoticed .
I hope Avast improve in this aspect.

 

Doubt it. How many % of users even read or know about AV-Comapartives test? Less than 1% surely.

 

For the present you are correct,but their results are being quoted more and more in magazine articles.