AV-Test Results for Nov/Dec Now Available

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/windows-7/novdec-2012/

3 products not certified.

 

Thanks.
A new entry for Tencent: PC Manager.
FPs back for Webroot.
Eset protection inches upward. Their record with FPs is commendable.
Trend Micro remains strong.
Except for the three that failed certification, everyone is doing very well.

 

Looking accross scores of 'Protection', 'Repair' and 'Usability' results look like this:

1st. BitDefender 16.5 out of a possible 18
Joint 2nd. Kaspersky 16 / 18
Joint 2nd. NIS 16 / 18
Joint 4th. F-secure 15.5 /18
Joint 4th. Trend 15.5 / 18
6th. G-Data 14.5 / 18
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Joint 24th MSE & PCTools 10 / 18
25th (Last) Ahnlabs 8.5 / 18

BitDefender a class act all round. MSE having difficulties. Not good for it's allegedly huge user base. Webroot 'Protection' continues to be v good but Webroot finding it difficult to clear up malware infected systems in these tests ('Repair' 3 / 6)- I guess WSA 'journalling' not work when box already infected prior to WSA install?

 

I am surprised at the amount of fps that webroot has.
The rest seems to be the same as before.
trend micro does seem to be doing better it is just a shame about the impact it has.

 

thanks for the ranking but,
Joint 4th: F-secure and Trend

 

Looking accross scores of 'Protection'*, results look like this:

1st. BitDefender 6.0/6.0
Joint 1st. Trend 6.0/6.0
Joint 1st. F-secure 6.0/6.0
Joint 2nd. NIS 5.5/6.0
Joint 2nd. Kaspersky 5.5/6.0
Joint 2nd. G-Data 5.5/6.0
Joint 2nd. BullGuard 5.5/6.0
Joint 2nd. Webroot 5.5/6.0
Joint 3rd. Qihoo 5.0/6.0
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Joint 24th AhnLab 3.0/6.0
25th (Last) MSE 1.5/6.0
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Repair:
http://www.av-test.org/en/test-procedures/test-modules/repair/

Usability:
http://www.av-test.org/en/test-procedures/test-modules/usability/

 

TrendMicro, F-Secure and Bitdefender the winners for protection against malware

 

Doh! Updated, thanks.

 

AV-Test will be announcing winner of their best of year awards soon. Based on the addition of Nov/Dec tests results, can there be any doubt that winner of the consumer category will be BD? They won the AV-T home/consumer award last year didn't they (I think f-secure walked away with the enterprise/business product of the year category).

 

Good result from AVG free 2013 again and better than any other free product that joined the test.
They really have done a great job in avg labs the last 2 years.

 

I wonder how MSE users feel if they ever see this.
The amount of threads I see recommending MSE to people asking for an antivirus is insane despite it being one of the most insecure and easily infected AVs i have tried personally

 

The appeal of MSE is that it's free, it's install and forget, and it doesn't come bundled with a bunch of junk. So a lot of people go for it, perhaps because that's all they care about...

 

The dark horse this year has been Trend. Edged out G-Data. From what I have read about it's web protection, it's one of the best currently. However, past versions were heavy on system resources and the virus scanner was a dog.

Anyone using the 2013 version?

 

Symantec had better get it's act together and start working on getting PC Tools back to a state where it at least passes certification, or else it's just a wasted investment on their end. Why bother having a second brand when you clearly aren't putting the effort into it?

Other than that, I think the results have been mostly consistent. AVG's repair ability remains a matter of concern.

 

Trend Platimun Security 2013 download on 6 month trial via Facebook AV Marketplace if anyone wants to give it a whirl...

 

Criticisms of MSE are no doubt justified – but still, if one is after a free (set and forget) AV only, there does not appear that much to choose from. I use MSE because I couldn't make up my mind what else to use. Avast caused too many bluescreens, Panda went bananas, I have little faith in Avira, and AVG is a behemoth at 118MBs for my slow internet connection.
Still....I may have to reconsider?

 

What about Roboscan?

 

Nice to see ZoneAlarm's Free AV doing well still

 

Again BD and KIS topping the charts. Nice to see NIS up there too.

 

I continue to be amazed at the dismal performance of MSE ... thinking about trying another product, but I do like MSE's stability and simplicity.

 

People worried about MSE should read deeper into the statistics.

An abysmally low amount of 100 samples was used for the "0-day" test. Of 100 samples, MSE detected 71 in November, that's 71%, and 78 in December, that's 78%.

I don't know about others, but to me this seems entirely realistic of the AV industry as a whole, 70-ish%, when it comes to 0 day protection. AV's scoring higher than this, and even scoring 100% in 0-day (entirely impossible) is simply flawed, and once again portraits AV's as some kind of miracle cure, when they are not. BitDefender scoring 100% of 0 days? Give me a break. This alone shows how pathetic the sample set is.

Considering AV companies love to boast about how many thousands of samples of new malware are created every day, basing a test on only 100 samples in an entire month is laughable.

Also, I find it a bit odd that MSE somehow scores 1.5/6 for scoring 78% detection of 100 samples.

 

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Dear Friends
We have discussed about MSE every now and then
MSE should be considered just as a "part of windows security".I mean,MSE is not an independant program(like other 3rd parties).So testing the mere MSE is not a good idea.
A windows(with all security updates installed and specially with "Smart Scan"....which has been part of IE and now,with win8 is a resident independant shield ) is not that in danger with MSE.

(although I don't like Microsoft Policy on MSE.....you are limited to use all the updates (and of course IE in windows other than 8 to have Smart Screen) and thats why I gave it up.)

 

Interesting results...F-Secure doesn't get a lot of attention but seems to be quite solid!

 

Been using it for a while now, no issues here.

 

Same here, windows defender is not bad! Its designed to be user-friendly so no false positives is a good thing