How Reliable and Accurate is this?

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  1. PJC

    PJC Very Frequent Poster

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  2. King Grub

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    Out of those particular 0-day samples that day and using on-demand scanning only as a test method, probably completely.
     
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    This doesn't take into account the behavioural protection systems employed in all these products. Thus, by default it seems to favour multi-engine products and those products which have more frequent database updates. It might be one way of looking at it but this isn't all that indicative of zero-day protection since behavioural systems do count towards protection at zero day....(as well as malware URL blockers/download protection/reputation based queries, etc.)
     
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    Malwarebytes at 3% and Emsisoft at 41%? Sounds kind of suspect.
     
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    To me, seems to be a sponsored website trying to reverse the disastrous image left by certain vendor on the other two big tests.
     
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    Even more suspicious yet, the "certain vendor" does not appear in the list. Hard to believe on it.
    Payback will be on the way: https://threatcenter.crdf.fr/?Stats

    Sorry, their testing results doesn't make any sense to me.
     
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    First of, it seems all products are not updated at exactly the same time. For this reason the results are already somewhat skewed.

    Secondly, the samples are collected from their database. Now their database is based on community submissions and from VirusTotal. We do not know for e.g. how many of these are simply executables packed with some fancy packer which triggers packer detection from some AVs (note that quite a few of the AVs scoring well do in fact detect packers under specific circumstances).

    I'm not sure how valid the test is, because it's based on one vendor's database instead of an industry standard, vendor neutral malware collection. It might actually be a "honest" test but something tells me it's skewed from the start due to reasons I have mentioned earlier.
     
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    Grub is 100 % on this . The test done is probably very accurate . Question is how good was the test to accurately display how good the software is overall in real world . You need not go far to realize Eset and Fortinet are nowhere near 1 and 2 as far as overall protection .
     
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    I don't think it is that far fetched to think the ESET would be at or near the top in detecting zero day threats which is what this test seems to measure. NOD32 has long been a leader in proactive heuristic detections. I think that for some years it has done very well in that category at AV Comparatives.

    I must say, however, it is a bit surprising to see MBAM near the bottom of the results. That does not jive with any other evidence I have seen on that product.
     
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    I think it is totally accurate. For those of you who have bailed on Eset long ago have alot to learn. Looking down this list looks about right.
    MBAM gets most of its samples from forum members so its score on zero day is not surprising.
     
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    I did not know that about MBAM. I have been running it real time for a month or two and it really has not detected anything other than when I test my setup at various sites. I first started using it because it seemed like the tool of choice for support agents from a variety of other malware companies.
     
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    Guys I have worked with this site the people I believe seem trustworthy. These results are on-demand VT results as they test them. Looking over the results they seem pretty accurate from pure VT results. I would submit a lot of malware to them in the past and the results never seemed off to me.
     
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    Doesn't seem accurate to me.

    Emsisoft uses the Bitdefender engine and their own engine.
    Can't see that in the stats...
     
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    Using the same engine does not mean they will have the same(or comparable results) since,
    1)Heuristics have been toned down in Emsisoft to favor faster scanning and low memory footprint
    2)Emsisoft does not use the Bitdefender engine on real time protection, they use a much lighter Mamutu

    there are many products like Estsoft Alylac and BullGuard which use BD engine but don't display equivalence to the detection and removal rate standards set by BD, but run much much lighter than BD.
    There is a difference between implementing the engine and a simple rebrand :)
     
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    1) Heuristics have not been toned down, just checked with a big sample pack.
    2) Not relevant to this topic, it's about on-demand scans. But i'd like to inform you that the double engine is used for realtime protection (check it with a simple eicar.com test file) and in addition there's the Behavior Blocker a.k.a. Mamutu.

    Heuristics are also enabled on Virustotal. Therefore i say that the stats shown on the cdrf site are not accurate.
    If i'm sure they're not accurate for 1 product, i don't care about the other results in the same test. And that's what this thread is all about.
     
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    Now, results are slightly changed...
     

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    You don't really believe this sentence, or? :ninja:
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    The CRDF stats are valid for on-demand results of their samples, from their sources which not necessary have to do something with real word dissemination.
     
  19. Ibrad

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    Has Emsisoft upgraded their engine off the Ikraus engine on VT to the Bitdefender one? It been a while since I uploaded something and compared detection of the two.
     
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    For me,the main point of interest in that table is that the best product still missed over a third of the samples,highlighting again the limitations of blacklisting.
     
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    Some of us bailed for quality issues, not detection rates.
     
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    Yes, they did.
     
  23. Noob

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    +1 ctraltdelete
    I feel EAM should perform better since it's an On Demand test and it's using the same BD engine but at the end whatever, im fine with those results. :D
     
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    I have some additional access to their database, there are some FPs and multiple threats so the results are not 100 % reliable ...
     
  25. Solarlynx

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    I am not surprised with MBAM results. In some thread at Wilders' (sorry, I couldn't find it) I read that MBAM is aimed not to substitute a regular av, but to make some work other avs don't.
     
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