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Consumer Real-World Protection Test February-May 2021
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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 947210" data-attributes="member: 83059"><p>I agree that it can happen with any AV. I've had issues with Kaspersky 2020 on a surface pro 7, when it wakes from sleep the AV database stops updating and the cloud functionality all silently stops working because it thinks the network is offline (days layer I get a warning about out of date databases).</p><p></p><p>I'm mostly just concerned that the aggregate testing scores will miss this datapoint, like MS Defender didn't participate in this test. It's a matter of results presentation. Labeling it as either an inconclusive/malfunction in the overall score or presenting the score with a caveat that it malfunctioned would be more transparent. The reliability of an AV is an important metric as well. It might not be the goal of this test, admittedly, but I still think that silently dropping the product from the table as if it's not tested at all is not the right way to display this result.</p><p></p><p>(I have nothing against MS Defender, obviously. It's a great product. I'd make this same comment for any other vendor that had their results omitted due to a malfunction)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 947210, member: 83059"] I agree that it can happen with any AV. I've had issues with Kaspersky 2020 on a surface pro 7, when it wakes from sleep the AV database stops updating and the cloud functionality all silently stops working because it thinks the network is offline (days layer I get a warning about out of date databases). I'm mostly just concerned that the aggregate testing scores will miss this datapoint, like MS Defender didn't participate in this test. It's a matter of results presentation. Labeling it as either an inconclusive/malfunction in the overall score or presenting the score with a caveat that it malfunctioned would be more transparent. The reliability of an AV is an important metric as well. It might not be the goal of this test, admittedly, but I still think that silently dropping the product from the table as if it's not tested at all is not the right way to display this result. (I have nothing against MS Defender, obviously. It's a great product. I'd make this same comment for any other vendor that had their results omitted due to a malfunction) [/QUOTE]
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