AV-Comparatives: testing of antivirus products for detection: September 2013

[Petrovic]

The test results

Chart missed malware samples (lower is better)

The overall detection
1. AVIRA, G DATA, F-Secure 99.7%
2. McAfee, Panda 99.6%
3. Kaspersky, Bitdefender, Emsisoft 99.5%
4. BullGuard, eScan 99.4%
5. Fortinet, Vipre 99.0%
6. AVG 98.3%
7. Sophos, Trend Micro 98.2%
8. ESET 97.1%
9. Avast 96.5%
10. AhnLab 90.6%
11. Microsoft 90.1%
12. Symantec 89.7%

Schedule of false positives (lower is better)

Results of false positives (False Positive)

1. Microsoft 0
2. ESET 1
3. F-Secure 2
4. Fortinet 3
5. Kaspersky 5
6. Emsisoft 7
7. Bitdefender, BullGuard, Sophos 8
8. Avast 10
9. AhnLab 13
10. Trend Micro 14
11. AVIRA, McAfee, Panda 20
12. G DATA 22
13. AVG, eScan 28
14. Symantec, vipre 37

* These products have received awards lower due to false positives.

http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/avc_fdt_201309_en.pdf

 

[MrExplorer]

ESET is 2nd Best in False Positives.

 

[MidniteRider]

Did anyone notice Symantec's back in AV-C?

 

[3link9]

Did anyone notice Symantec's back in AV-C?

Only in Detection tests.

and something about this test just doesnt make sense to me....

 

[Deleted member 178]

and something about this test just doesnt make sense to me....

all those tests labs doesnt make sense...

 

[Littlebits]

and something about this test just doesnt make sense to me....

all those tests labs doesnt make sense...

I can make good sense of of these results:

One star costs $2,000:

The AV's that got 3 stars (Advanced +) paid AV-comparatives $6,000.

The AV's that got 2 stars (Advanced) paid only $4,000.

The AV that got 1 star (Standard) paid only $2,000.

And we all know how tight Symantec is when it comes to paying for anything or giving anything away for free, because that explains why they didn't get any stars.

Now does everyone understand these results?

Thanks.

 

[Gnosis]

I can make good sense of of these results:

One star costs $2,000:

The AV's that got 3 stars (Advanced +) paid AV-comparatives $6,000.

The AV's that got 2 stars (Advanced) paid only $4,000.

The AV that got 1 star (Standard) paid only $2,000.

And we all know how tight Symantec is when it comes to paying for anything or giving anything away for free, because that explains why they didn't get any stars.

Now does everyone understand these results?

Thanks. Big Grin

Now THAT was BEAUTIFUL. I could not agree more.