AV Comparatives - Real World Protection: March 2017

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"MY AV ONLY SCORED 98.5 % THIS TIME !"

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"MY AV SCORED 100 % THIS TIME, BUT THEY HAD TO SELECT BLOCK IN THE ALERT FOR 6.0 % OF THE SAMPLES !"



"I'M SWITCHING BACK TO WINDOWS DEFENDER UNTIL THE NEXT PUBLISHED TEST !!!!!!!!!"

Really... ???
 
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brod56

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Seeing Windows Defender beating big names like Avira and Kaspersky is pretty much like seeing Samsung defeat Apple in quality and design.
Very unlikely some years ago, but it is happening since the S6 :D

PS. Just a innocent comparison, I know Kaspersky is still much better than Windows Defender ;)
 

Handsome Recluse

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Seeing Windows Defender beating big names like Avira and Kaspersky is pretty much like seeing Samsung defeat Apple in quality and design.
Very unlikely some years ago, but it is happening since the S6 :D

PS. Just a innocent comparison, I know Kaspersky is still much better than Windows Defender ;)
Competition makes for a better world for us.
 
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Moi61

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Wow, again, Bitdefender is leading. Really impressive. Microsoft is getting amazing. This is a bad signal for all antivirus companies.
 

HarborFront

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Wow, again, Bitdefender is leading. Really impressive. Microsoft is getting amazing. This is a bad signal for all antivirus companies.
MS sure is getting amazing.......and she is also amazing in stealing your privacy info

;)
 
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Winter Soldier

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I think AVComparatives is the most credible test at least in my opinion.
However, regardless of this result, WD had the potential to improve, I do not see anything strange.
Saying that it is better or worse than other top vendors is only a concept related to the dynamic evolution of the malware.
 

Handsome Recluse

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MS sure is getting amazing.......and she is also amazing in stealing your privacy info

;)
Privacy's existence in the amendments means that it is meant to protect your freedom. But you can alternatively be lawful enough not to be targeted and more importantly be financially free to be free. People will stomp on your freedom anyway and this is a better and more convenient way of having that. Hiding won't save you and you're not exactly free when hiding since hiding demands giving up the convenience and freedom technology gives.
 
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russ0408

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This is the way Windows Essential was when it first came out, performing just as good or better than some of the paid antivirus programs. Now you watch them start screaming bloody murder like before, especially Norton.
 
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jamescv7

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Quite surprise to Microsoft and I'm pleased to see that the protection capabilities are decent among the others, although still it lacks the mechanistic and behavior protection to balance it.

But of course a proper configuration of UAC and a companion tool like Voodoshield should lessen the bypass rate.

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Same thing as usual, some 3rd party AV's managed to got perfect ratings since the samples that are taken are easily recognized through heuristics, generic and signatures.
 

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