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AV-Comparatives - False Alarm Test March 2019
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 809496" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>The test overestimates the false positives rate because the prevalence of samples was not taken into account. For example, Avast had 15 false positives and McAfee 9, but the false positives of Avast will be seen by a few thousands of users as compared to hundreds of thousands of users for McAfee.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 809496, member: 32260"] The test overestimates the false positives rate because the prevalence of samples was not taken into account. For example, Avast had 15 false positives and McAfee 9, but the false positives of Avast will be seen by a few thousands of users as compared to hundreds of thousands of users for McAfee. [/QUOTE]
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