AV-Comparatives: Product of the Year 2015 (Kaspersky)

[Venustus]

Content source

http://www.av-comparatives.org/summary-reports/

 

[DracusNarcrym]

For once, I am going to agree with AV-Comparatives.

 

[Tony Cole]

Me to, I honestly believe Kaspersky, Emsisoft etc., are byfar the best in the industry. Congrats to all those who came out tops!

 

[SloppyMcFloppy]

Me to, I honestly believe Kaspersky, Emsisoft etc., are byfar the best in the industry. Congrats to all those who came out tops!

Emsisoft got bronze award on File Detection section like what the heck? Emsisoft should be next or above BitDefender.

 

[pneuma1985]

Ehh I'll give it to BD but I had issues and I tested all of their software and honestly even in paranoid mode I wasn't happy with it. For users who want an av suite which doesnt tell you much about anything its doing and you never really have to look at, OK I guess it's good for that. It was rather buggy also: some of the settings would change on their own from time to time which i found rather strange it was like certain settings were restricted while running scans which I tried to research and wasn't happy with their answers. And It's malware detection was subpar at best I released a script onto a vm and it took two minutes to catch the malware wasn't very pleased with that either. Which is exactly what it lacks in if you ask me Is duration of detection and removal.

 

[Nightwalker]

For once, I am going to agree with AV-Comparatives.

Me too, Kaspersky really deserves to be the product of the year and the others security products that are Top Rated deserve this classification aswell.

In my opinion:

Kaspersky > Emsisoft > Bitdefender = Eset > Avira > Avast > eScan

 

[pneuma1985]

Me too, Kaspersky really deserves to be the product of the year and the others security products that are Top Rated deserve this classification aswell.

In my opinion:

Kaspersky > Emsisoft > Bitdefender = Eset > Avira > Avast > eScan

Everyone always says kaspersky, but I ran it for so many years on my laptop and its detection was horrible. I used so many other scanners and it would find stuff that kaspersky deemed safe... Not sure how Kaspersky is now but I imagine the same way. In my experience its usually the on demand scanners that find whatever slips through the cracks. Always seemed like to much was getting through with kaspersky. Just my opinion

 

[DracusNarcrym]

Everyone always says kaspersky, but I ran it for so many years on my laptop and its detection was horrible. I used so many other scanners and it would find stuff that kaspersky deemed safe... Not sure how Kaspersky is now but I imagine the same way. In my experience its usually the on demand scanners that find whatever slips through the cracks. Always seemed like to much was getting through with kaspersky. Just my opinion

I'm afraid the strong points of Kaspersky are not intended to be its detection rates, rather the overall capabilities. Thus it boasts much more powerful behavior blocking modules, HIPS, firewall, and other components, which by far surpass those of its competitors (if those competitors actually have such components...)

Maybe the only comparable security suite in terms of the capabilities mentioned above, is Emsisoft Internet Security.

 

[pneuma1985]

Oh very true I wasn't necessarily saying Kaspersky was bad in anyway, but its definitely what took me away from giant security suites that's for sure. Though I do run CIS which is well a suite but not in the same way. Kaspersky and its modules don't play well with others.

 

[Nightwalker]

Everyone always says kaspersky, but I ran it for so many years on my laptop and its detection was horrible. I used so many other scanners and it would find stuff that kaspersky deemed safe... Not sure how Kaspersky is now but I imagine the same way. In my experience its usually the on demand scanners that find whatever slips through the cracks. Always seemed like to much was getting through with kaspersky. Just my opinion

Kaspersky always had strong detection of malware in general (trojans/viruses/worms/macros) but it had a purposeful weak protection against Adware/PUPs/Grey area software, it was a policy of Kaspersky Lab.

What kind of infection that "hit" you?

Nowadays Kaspersky is serious at providing protection against PUPs and adware,version 2016 has a module to protect specifically against those threats.

What I really like about Kaspersky software is how synergic it is, everything is covered with its powerful modules and there isnt any weak point.

Kaspersky has an anti-exploit, anti ransonware, anti PUP, privacy protection, Safe Money (against keyloggers), smart firewall, anti executable, HIPS, behavior blocker, web cam/audio protection; and all those modules are great and work together with the cloud (KSN) and traditional signatures + emulator.

Since version 2006 they are leading the market with cutting edge technology; I remember how innovative this version was, some security vendors took many years to adopt some innovations that Kaspersky Lab made with this version.

 

[pneuma1985]

Kaspersky always had strong detection of malware in general (trojans/viruses/worms/macros) but it had a purposeful weak protection against Adware/PUPs/Grey area software, it was a policy of Kaspersky Lab.

What kind of infection that "hit" you?

Nowadays Kaspersky is serious at providing protection against PUPs and adware,version 2016 has a module to protect specifically against those threats.



What I really like about Kaspersky software is how synergic it is, everything is covered with its powerful modules and there isnt any weak point.

Kaspersky has an anti-exploit, anti ransonware, anti PUP, privacy protection, Safe Money (against keyloggers), smart firewall, anti executable, HIPS, behavior blocker, web cam/audio protection; and all those modules are great and work together with the cloud (KSN) and traditional signatures + emulator.

Since version 2006 they are leading the market with cutting edge technology; I remember how innovative this version was, some security vendors took many years to adopt some innovations that Kaspersky Lab made with this version.

Completely agree that's what got me on it in 2009 or so...Haven't tested the 2016 version yet but I'll give it some testing in my Test VM. Thankyou for the info wasn't aware they added the new module

 

[CMLew]

Congrats to all winning company.
I'm not really an avid supporter for those company cuz there's no Appguard inside
That being said, I'm satisfied with Emsisoft product that I currently using and start introducing it more and more to my family and relatives.

 

[jamescv7]

Well deserve and worth convincing to place them on that category since it matched from our views, Emsisoft brought a good start on the entry on AV-Comparatives although the result may be contradict as usual.

Meanwhile there is no need to hesitate as Kaspersky shown the matured and established product that does not rely too much on signatures and its already important on the product nowadays, even though threats are simple or complex.

 

[SloppyMcFloppy]

Kaspersky always had strong detection of malware in general (trojans/viruses/worms/macros) but it had a purposeful weak protection against Adware/PUPs/Grey area software, it was a policy of Kaspersky Lab.

What kind of infection that "hit" you?

Nowadays Kaspersky is serious at providing protection against PUPs and adware,version 2016 has a module to protect specifically against those threats.




What I really like about Kaspersky software is how synergic it is, everything is covered with its powerful modules and there isnt any weak point.

Kaspersky has an anti-exploit, anti ransonware, anti PUP, privacy protection, Safe Money (against keyloggers), smart firewall, anti executable, HIPS, behavior blocker, web cam/audio protection; and all those modules are great and work together with the cloud (KSN) and traditional signatures + emulator.

Since version 2006 they are leading the market with cutting edge technology; I remember how innovative this version was, some security vendors took many years to adopt some innovations that Kaspersky Lab made with this version.

Are those settings in the System Changes Control enable by default?

 

[Venustus]

Emsisoft got bronze award on File Detection section like what the heck? Emsisoft should be next or above BitDefender.

If you read the PDF,AVC does suggest that as an improvement to Emsisoft would be to put the file guard to "thorough" instead of "balanced",thereby probably strengthening even more it's already very good capabilities!!
On a further note KIS is an overall complete package!!
Thanks!!

 

[Deleted member 178]

KIS ? best product for home users ? yeah, why not. Surely because it has all the wanted modules.

 

[Mihir :-)]

Well deserve Kaspersky! But Emsisoft deserve second place

 

[omidomi]

Yup i really agree with this

 

[hjlbx]

Some days Kaspersky win, some days Bitdefender win, some days Emsisoft win.

On some days... they all lose miserably...

Bank accounts wiped-out... .... .... .... BROKE !

Next...

Everything re-possessed and foreclosed...

Wife gone...

Kids gone...

Left with infected computer...

 

[harlan4096]

but I ran it for so many years on my laptop and its detection was horrible. I used so many other scanners and it would find stuff that kaspersky deemed safe... Not sure how Kaspersky is now but I imagine the same way. In my experience its usually the on demand scanners that find whatever slips through the cracks. Always seemed like to much was getting through with kaspersky. Just my opinion

I've being sending samples to Kaspersky for many years, and They have many times a different criteria to add samples... based in my experience, They, for example, usually don't add many cracks/keygens that many others consider as malware, usually (I tested hundreds in VM) are just a simple application that generates a serial number, not harmful at all for users, which others antivirus consider as malware, other times are packers false positive detections that Kaspersky of course don't add, also for long time They didn't add much PUP/PUA/adware, but things changed, and so on...