MalwareTips News AV-Comparatives tests 19 antivirus products against 200 malicious links

[Sorrento]

Thank you for putting results into perspective.

In poll I chose Low impact ob PC speed option.

its interesting that the bar chart does not start at zero its starts at 80%, the previous chart as shown by @Jonny Quest starts at 75%, if the chart was to start at zero the red would hardly be noticeable, looking at older bar charts from the same site changes from 75% to 80% starting point which confuses comparisons even more, most AV's today as a whole are pretty good, results on such sites have to be seen as relevant by them.

 

[Parkinsond]

its interesting that the bar chart does not start at zero its starts at 80%, the previous chart as shown by @Jonny Quest starts at 75%, if the chart was to start at zero the red would hardly be noticeable, looking at older bar charts from the same site changes from 75% to 80% starting point which confuses comparisons even more, most AV's today as a whole are pretty good, results on such sites have to be seen as relevant by them.

Sometimes they bundle the graph with tables for the number of missed samples and the number of false positive detections, which is more informative.

 

[Miraculix]

its interesting that the bar chart does not start at zero its starts at 80%, the previous chart as shown by @Jonny Quest starts at 75%, if the chart was to start at zero the red would hardly be noticeable, looking at older bar charts from the same site changes from 75% to 80% starting point which confuses comparisons even more, most AV's today as a whole are pretty good, results on such sites have to be seen as relevant by them.

If you were to start the diagrams at zero, they would be completely pointless because you wouldn't be able to see any differences at all. Therefore, if you want to show diagrams, you inevitably have to choose the starting point so that they actually have meaning. But then—as you correctly pointed out—you should keep the starting point of the diagram in mind.

 

[Parkinsond]

If you were to start the diagrams at zero, they would be completely pointless because you wouldn't be able to see any differences at all. Therefore, if you want to show diagrams, you inevitably have to choose the starting point so that they actually have meaning. But then—as you correctly pointed out—you should keep the starting point of the diagram in mind.

Me trying to see the difference between products if they start at 0%

 

[Miraculix]

Ich versuche, den Unterschied zwischen Produkten zu sehen, wenn sie bei 0 % anfangen.

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Benutze eine Lupe!

 

[TairikuOkami]

I honestly never liked all-in-one products. Do 1 thing and do it right, instead of doing dozens of things half way.
Blocking malicious links is certainly neat, it is like putting a cherry on top of a cake, but maybe finish the cake first?

 

[Jonny Quest]

I honestly never liked all-in-one products. Do 1 thing and do it right, instead of doing dozens of things half way.
Blocking malicious links is certainly neat, it is like putting a cherry on top of a cake, but maybe finish the cake first?

I agree. I also don't like being locked into a AV companies ecosystem, especially of their PM and VPN. If I wanted to change AV's it's not a problem, as I was only using the AV part of a product (F-Secure Internet Security, Avast Free, and now, WD).

 

[Marko :)]

What I always say: NEVER use all protection from one security company. ALWAYS use different products from different security companies.

For example: if you use Defender, you shouldn't rely just on SmartScreen. Add Bitdefender Traffic Light in your web browser and malware-blocking DNS (Cloudflare, Quad9 or Control D). As a bonus, you can also use Google Safe Browsing in your web browser.

If DNS misses something, Google Safe Browsing or Bitdefender will catch it. If both fail, Defender (SmartScreen) will catch it. Hardly anything will pass through four different security vendors.

This will drastically improve your protection (instead of relying on one malware database, you're relying on four of them).

 

[Sorrento]

I'm not suggesting the graph start at zero But bar for one exception, in reality, there isn't much difference between the tested products, some of which are virtually the same company, so maybe other preferences come in far more a least for me, such as cost, FP's, country of origin, GUI, load on computer, features, etc as they almost all will provide adequate protection, as the questionnaire says? It did not used to be that way, there used it be large differences on protection quality when I was just a lad.

 

[Captain Holly]

Not long ago I went back to using Windows Security and my MBAM Premium lifetime license. I also use the MB Browser Guard extension in all browsers. This combo seems to work very well. A nice little bonus is MBAM now has a website search rating with a green check mark and a flag to tell me the link is safe on my Google search results. It's very much like the one in Traffic Light. I tested it in Bing Search and it works there too. I am trying very hard to not worry about AV stuff now. I think keeping my laptop updated, not downloading shady stuff and reading here at MWT to learn about what threats to watch out for goes a long way towards good security.

C.H.

 

[stonjean633]

What I always say: NEVER use all protection from one security company. ALWAYS use different products from different security companies.

For example: if you use Defender, you shouldn't rely just on SmartScreen. Add Bitdefender Traffic Light in your web browser and malware-blocking DNS (Cloudflare, Quad9 or Control D). As a bonus, you can also use Google Safe Browsing in your web browser.

If DNS misses something, Google Safe Browsing or Bitdefender will catch it. If both fail, Defender (SmartScreen) will catch it. Hardly anything will pass through four different security vendors.

This will drastically improve your protection (instead of relying on one malware database, you're relying on four of them).

This is spot on!
Different vendors at different layers especially for Enterprise.
If one fails,hope the next one up to the endpoint catches it.

 

[Shadowra]

Oh, is AV-Comparative FINALLY using malicious URLs?
It's not good to resume my protocol

 

[Zero Knowledge]

What I always say: NEVER use all protection from one security company. ALWAYS use different products from different security companies.

You don't understand the general population. They have zero time for tweaking, multiple protection products or multiple security extensions.

For us security folk it's fine to layer security products but others not they are busy with work/study duties.

This is what I do for non tech people, use MD or the cheapest key for a AV you can find & install a ad-blocker or service like NextDNS/AddGuard and tell them to use a Chrome browser or fork. Nothing else matters, non tech folk are not going to be able to defend against anything sophisticated.