AV-Comparatives 2011 dynamic tests

In the On-Demand test at least, I know that Avira and others requested it.

 

Page 18: http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/methodology.pdf

"Which version and what settings of the products where used"

 

Nice.

 

@shadek: http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792055/Repercussions_of_dynamic_testing#09

 

It has been a long read, but i completely agree

 

Uhm...

Oh really? They are not doing that yet? I hazard to guess they do test their malware against all major AVs pretty much daily. Security by obscurity never worked.

 

Agreed.
Some of the big boys even test every single hour, according to a 'GangstaBucks TDL4 affiliates' info screenshot that is. link.
(from lotuseclat79 post here)

 

Excellent article, thanks!

P.S. Nice sig!

 

Avast could have done even better if behavior shield settings were changed. The default action is to auto decide but i think the safest choice is 'ask' .

 

i'd like to have seen how prevx and rising antivirus would have fared in this test...

 

avast free antivirus and have excellent rate
norton the winner in this test

 

Like in many others

 

Why do the dynamic tests use out-of-the-box settings while the detection test uses maximum (or vendor choice) settings?

 

If you have read the thread you should have seen this post :
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1862711&postcount=52

 

No, I saw that and read the document, but I don't recall seeing an answer to my question in there. Can you be more specific?

 

Kaspersky and Norton are two best performers

 

This kind of test aims to simulate a real-world condition

 

Well, in that it surely fails, because regardless of whether it's downloading a file or running a scan, default settings are what 99% of people will be using. Hence my question.

Now I've read in the on-demand scan test it's to level the playing field, remove custom behaviour where scan criteria are upped on a match, etc. Yet I'm not really sure I understand how that gels with the dynamic testing, and also makes the two tests hard to compare in a meaningful way since they're using completely different AV settings.

 

April results appear on the chart.

Where is Microsoft?

 

G data

 

Trend Micro 98% blocking overall...

 

Pretty good showcase from avast!. And that's a free version!

 

Tests have still not finished.

 

Where is the link for the April results?

 

First post in the thread. The link goes to the results from April now.