Latest AV-Comparatives Results Released

[Scouzer]

A few small surprises in this one. Kaspersky is doing really poorly lately, now in the bottom half of the results. Kaspersky's results are only a smidge better than AVG, which is notorious for bad detection rates.

As usual, AVIRA kicked ass with tons of false positives and remains the best free anti virus.

Link to PDF

 

[mechBgon]

And for those who find that sort of thing interesting, here's another (this is updated daily, I believe):

http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
And for those who find that sort of thing interesting, here's another (this is updated daily, I believe):

http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/

What I dislike about that list is it's unclear what software versions they're using.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: mechBgon
And for those who find that sort of thing interesting, here's another (this is updated daily, I believe):

http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/

What I dislike about that list is it's unclear what software versions they're using.

Sometimes it does matter, yeah. In the bigger picture, I hope people don't consult the AV-Comparatives results and get too rosy a picture of antivirus detection rates. It's great to have onboard as one layer of defense, but don't consider it anywhere close to infallible.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks that was a good read!

 

[LR6]

Is some cases they a very different. Microsoft was 14th in the avc report and 2nd in the sri one.