AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test of September 2015

@anon and @pb1 Thanks for the prompt replies!

 

Nope.

 

Wow, interesting feature in a free Av. Are they, Avira, the only ones or are there more like that now ?

I saw that under improvements in the latest update there where removal of HIPS mentioned. How is that an improvement ?

 

HIPS aka Avira ProActiv.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/avira.345492/page-151#post-2527782
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/avira.345492/page-152#post-2528147
if you have further questions re Avira, please use the Avira's thread.

@ all,
Sorry for the O.T.

 

No problem Martin, take care

 

@Macstorm

Is that your house pictured at Snæfellsjökull

 

Depends on your pain threshold; mine is pretty low. I'd rather have the (small) risk than the (guaranteed) inconvenience.
Gotta love Baidu's "crazy many FPs" category! (I imagine Qihoo up there as well, had they tested it.)

 

Baidu had no false positives.

 

You may want to read the entire thread before "correcting":

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@Rolo42 You were right. I was only looking at the results of the September test, not the last one posted. That's a ridiculous amount of false positives. Also, the result for Avast is way to high for my liking. But, I'll probably ditch Avast soon anyway, and go back to having no antivirus.

 

Roger, no I'm not being sarcastic, just curious - is Avast becoming too heavy on your machine too?

 

@Krusty13 No, it's extremly light. There only been one brief instance where it's slowed down my computer. Other than that, there's absolutely no noticable system impact.

However, my one issue with Avast, is that there's no way to add detected threats to the ignore list, other than doing it manually. You can quarantine and file, and then chose to add it to the ignore list when restoring it, so it won't be detected again. But, it would be much better to be able to just ignore the file when it is detected, rather than having to quaratine and then restore it.

 

I ran into this also--a foolish design that breaks installs, etc. I was starting to like avast again until this. And a false positive on something really popular (I don't remember what).

It seems lighter in that it can queue better (vs. being sluggish and even hanging in prior versions). Startup modification notification is nice and doesn't break anything and has smart defaults. I haven't seen any nags at all but I wonder if that's because it's beta.

I'm with you in that, when I rebuild this machine (when threshold 2 releases and activation works with real keys), I'm just going to stick with WD, EMET, Spywareblaster, and malware filters. Zero hassle/FPs.

 

@Windows_Security

My imaginary house

I actually took the name of the Jules Verne novel, A Journey to the Center of the Earth (musician Rick Wakeman's album, to be more precise).