AV-Comparatives - Summary Report 2018

[aliali]

Product of the Year 2018

Avast

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https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/avc_sum_201812_en.pdf
Summary Report 2018 | AV-Comparatives

 

[Captain Awesome]

Avast improved alot....

 

[Moonhorse]

Thought kaspersky would win, due malware remowal winning. But oh well, avast well deserved

 

[elquenunca]

bitdefender always fine although in this forum I do not like

 

[stefanos]

Kaspersky free and Avast free is the better option for free antivirus 2019. But I am impressed from Tencent PC Manager. Every month have better results.

 

[ChemicalB]

Over the results, I see 78 pages of PDF report, good and detailed work AV Comparatives

 

[low L!fe]

As usual kings of protection are Bitdefender & Kaspersky
surprise with avast
where is GDATA?

 

[dJim]

Where is my lovely qihoo360 ? also.. there any kind of test with same lvl of check for firewall´s ?

 

[Dave Russo]

As usual kings of protection are Bitdefender & Kaspersky
surprise with avast
where is GDATA?

Gdata is not one of the tested products.

 

[Ink]

Gdata is not one of the tested products.

I'm sure this is asked every month, "where's Comodo or G-DATA" LOL

 

[LDogg]

Nice to see Tencent on there, Could be the next AV I visit after the Webroot subscription has run out.

~LDogg

 

[lobo001]

Impressive what avast has improved !!!

 

[L0ckJaw]

Totally unbelievable tests if Bitdefender placed 2nd and Avast first ?
Bitdefender is so buggy how can it be 2nd best ?
This is a bought test i am sure of it.

 

[LDogg]

Totally unbelievable tests if Bitdefender placed 2nd and Avast first ?
Bitdefender is so buggy how can it be 2nd best ?
This is a bought test i am sure of it.

Don't think there is any proof of that really. I don't always go by these tests, I normally give them a pinched of salt. Any product on the day could be better than Avast!

~LDogg

 

[bribon77]

Bitdefender is so buggy how can it be 2nd best ?

Bitdefender is buggy as program. But their signatures are good.
and its detection is good.

 

[oldschool]

Go Avast! Give the Russians a good run for the money. Go Czech Republic!

 

[Nestor]

Bitdefender is buggy and heavy but remains a very good AV who done the job really well.

 

[Arequire]

how can it be 2nd best ?

Says right there in the report:

Being recognized as “Product of the Year” does not mean that a program is the “best” in all cases and for everyone: it only means that its overall performance in our tests throughout the year was consistent and unbeaten.
Our awards are based on test results only and do not consider other factors ...

 

[shmu26]

So it looks like AVAST only got a bronze prize in the performance department.

"Avast is Product of the Year 2018. It received an Avanced+ Award in every test this year. It also takes the Gold Award for the Malware Protection Test, Silver for Malware Removal, and Bronze for the Performance Test."

That surprised me, because I often see AVAST recommended as a light AV, appropriate even for weak hardware.

 

[Nightwalker]

So it looks like AVAST only got a bronze prize in the performance department.

"Avast is Product of the Year 2018. It received an Avanced+ Award in every test this year. It also takes the Gold Award for the Malware Protection Test, Silver for Malware Removal, and Bronze for the Performance Test."

That surprised me, because I often see AVAST recommended as a light AV, appropriate even for weak hardware.

Avast! is very light, there are no surprises here.

Bronze prize because it was ranked at the 3rd place (behind ESET and K7) and it won the "advanced +" badge.

Performance Test October 2018

AV-Comparatives released the Performance Test Report October 2018 for consumer security products under Microsoft Windows 10

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