AV-Comparatives’ 2017 Product of the Year award goes to Bitdefender. AV-Comparatives’ 2017 Outstanding Product Award goes to: Kaspersky Lab. AV-Comparatives’ Top-Rated Award for 2017 goes to, in alphabetical order: Avast, AVG, AVIRA, eScan, Tencent, VIPRE.
So I guess compiling this annual summary report is the reason there has not yet been a release of the Dec, 2017 Real Time Protection Test. This is a bit strange in view of the fact that on January 4, 2018, Emsisoft in a blog post celebrated the fact that Emsisoft Anti Malware was the top scorer on that December Test. https://blog.emsisoft.com/2018/01/04/emsisoft-highest-award-av-comparatives-test/