AV-Comparatives: Annual Summary Report (2016).

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  1. anon

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    AV-Comparatives: Annual Summary Report (2016).

    AVIRA wins AV-Comparatives’ 2016 product of the year; Bitdefender and Kaspersky Lab named Outstanding Product winners


    8th February 2017, Innsbruck AV-Comparatives, the global independent antivirus testing lab, today announces the publication of its freely available annual AV-Comparatives’ Summary Report.

    Top winners for AV-Comparatives’ Summary Report 2016
    AV-Comparatives has two top awards for the vendors that excelled across all the test categories:

    Product of the Year 2016 : AVIRA
    Outstanding Product 2016: Bitdefender, Kaspersky Lab


    The top award of 2016 went to AVIRA for Anti-Virus Pro. Avira has been named AV-Comparatives’ 2016 Product of the Year.
    Bitdefender’s Internet Security and Kaspersky Lab’s Internet Security offering were both very close runners up with nearly identical scores, being named Outstanding Products for 2016.

    Top Rated Product 2016: Emsisoft, ESET, Tencent and ThreatTrack VIPRE.

    Further recognition of IT security excellence
    AV-Comparatives also awards winners from individual test types. Gold Winners by test type are listed below:
    ● Real-World Protection: Bitdefender
    ● File Detection: AVIRA, Kaspersky Lab
    ● False Positives: ESET, Trend Micro
    ● Performance (speed): AVIRA, ESET
    ● Malware Removal: AVG, Kaspersky Lab, Tencent

    https://www.av-comparatives.org/summary-reports/
     
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    Best product for free
     
  3. Minimalist

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    Thnx for sharing.
     
  4. Osaban

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    Well deserved indeed, particularly considering all the criticism associated with the launcher/connect inane issue...
     
  5. entropism

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    I just switched from Webroot to Avira Antivirus Pro (beta) to test it out. I have no idea why people hate the launcher so much. It's such a nothing issue to me.
     
  6. anon

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    The AV-C award has nothing to do with the Launcher.
     
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    I think he means that you can survive with the launcher, taking into account that you are using a great product for free, unless you pay for the support.

    I can imaging people playing with the launcher every boot of the pc and getting mad for it, but I guess most people don't even open the AV in weeks or months
     
  8. entropism

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    Reading the Avira thread is like reading politics on Reddit. People are getting FURIOUS at the stupid launcher, like it's a big deal, or makes any actual impact on their lives. If they hate it that much, just... move on. Simple. Use another AV.

    That being said, very impressed with Avira so far.
     
  9. Nightwalker

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    Kudos to Avira for the improvement and as always Kaspersky and Bitdefender at the top :thumb:

    I really want to see Avira Free being tested at AV-Comparatives ...
     
  10. Osaban

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    Well, for some reasons Avira free is actually doing better than Avira Pro at the latest RAP test of Virus Bulletin:
    https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/vb100/latest-rap-quadrant/
     
  11. Nightwalker

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    Almost the same, better for Reaction and worse in Proactive detection, maybe the Cloud helped there.

    Anyway nice link, it is good to see that there are equivalent in protection.
     
  12. anon

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    Re Virus Bulletin - Avira and in order to clarify for what products we are talking about:
    In VB100 tests the term Avira Pro means: The BUSINESS PRODUCT Avira Pro
    http://www.avira.com/en/for-business-avira-antivirus-pro
    and not the Home product Avira Antivirus Pro:
    http://www.avira.com/en/avira-antivirus-pro

    ;) ;) ;)
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    1. For some reasons Avira was not included in latest test:
    VB100 results from 2016-10 (latest) on Windows 7 Professional
    https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/magazine/2016/201610-vb100-comparative.pdf

    Last 10 VB100 tests for Avira Pro [Avira Antivirus Pro - Business Edition]:
    https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/results/recent/vb100-antimalware/avira

    Last 10 VB100 tests for Avira Free Antivirus:
    https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/results/recent/vb100-antimalware/avira-personal

    2. The latest test where Avira Antivirus Pro - Business Edition and Avira Free tested together was the:
    2016-04 VB100 results from 2016-04 on Windows 8.1
    https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/results/test_from/2016-04/vb100-antimalware
    https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/magazine/2016/201604-vb100-comparative.pdf

    where both products scored the same = RAP overview:85,1 / RAP Score:85.07
     
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  13. anon

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    1. Re cloud (APC): The Avira Protection Cloud is offered with both products, Avira Free & Paid.
    The Web Protection (aka WebGuard) is exclusively for Paid products.

    2. Re VB100 tests:
     
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    1. Re Product of the Year:
    2. Re the Real-World Protection Test:
    Further to Real-World Protection chart, just compare the awards for Avira & F-Secure above.....
     
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    wow very cool just loaded avira pro on my laptop..smokin cool :)
     
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