AV-Comparatives

The result will clearly show that my AV is the best ... and if not there must be something wrong with the test

 

and which AV is that ?
We are just curious?

 

New: PlaceboAV of course

 

The earth will shake, Wilders members will change AV brands, AV fan boys will become depressed, the Dr. will make a house call, lol....

 

Roflmao and hysteria will break loose but avg will win lol..

 

Nah, I still put my money on Avira.

 

That makes two of us

 

Look in the summarized tables and you will have your answer.

Gerard

 

Avira seems to do well this time in heuristics

 

wow
a lot are doing less good this time

 

Who knows about Symentec's improved technology (not yet publicly available) who scored 41% ? in 5 page at the end?
Anyone knows something about it? I am very interesting...

 

Nice job AVIRA. Not that they have the highest detection rate, they also have very low false positive rate and fast scanning.

 

Agree. Great job.
And the extended report is here:
Avira has 72 % with only 7 FPs.

 

Not just this time.

 

Avira does look good. Does anyone what the technical details are behind their heuristics?

 

I'm surprised at bitdefender and F-Secure, they usually do good. Specially F-Secure in particular (so many engines)!
Anyway, glad mcafee's done well.

 

The best won again

 

Like all good things that work- they are proprietary and closely guarded.

 

Indeed.

 

In terms of the test, the often maligned McAfee is doing well compared to some others. I get a free McAfee suite with my ISP, but use Avira.

 

it's pretty much what I expected, F-secure a bit of a surprise...

 

Sophos got lots, but too many FP's, but for people experienced, I don't think FP's would pose a threat, unless desicion is made automatically.

 

The biggest and most effective part of F-Secure's heuristics works real-time, not on-demand. Also, F-Secure's 2008 version has a number of bugs negatively affecting the on-demand detection rate (personal experience), though the difference in detection rate was never significant in my experience. I have the impression that the next version should bring lots of improvements in this regard, let us see.

For me AVG was the surprise as I was not expecting the 7.5 version to get an Advanced rating. AVG 8.0 is the one that has a better heuristics engine.....And AVG isn't all that frequent at updates as some other vendors, so it is a little bit strange.

EDIT: I'd also like to praise McAfee for a job well done since they got a respectable "Advanced" rating with zero false positives!

 

I wonder how detection rates for proactive defence would change if the malware was attempting to run rather than lying dormant and being detected by scanning?

 

Wow Sophos seem to do a very good job, it scored most of them all 74%, but unfortunately has also most FP's

Bitdefender seem to not work anything at all last 3 years, they always scored between 40 - 48% all those years, no improvements at all from BD, and almost most FP'S.
So i am very dissapointed at Bitdefender.

Avira seem to do a very good job and this time with LOW FP's, so i give a UP to Avira.