Endurance Test: Do security packages constantly generate false alarms?

[Deleted member 2913]

You trust your installed security solution: when its alarm goes off, your system is at risk – or was it a false alarm after all? Whether it is for private users or in companies – false positives should not occur. In a 14-month endurance test, AV-TEST evaluated which protection solutions are prone to upset the user for no reason, and which ones are totally reliable.

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[DJ Panda]

Honestly if something is a false positive I usually take the readings seriously and remove that program. Sometimes like FormatFactory or other 3rd party apps.

 

[hjlbx]

I will take false positives any day as long as the soft protects my system.

The whole "false" positive thing is only applicable to n00bs -- and that is the basis upon which vendors design their softs. This is why they use default settings that almost guarantees infection sooner or later...

 

[cruelsister]

H- Good point. Consider a legitimate file packed in a certain way that also has a valid certificate from a second level software company:

If an AV blocks the file due to the way it is packed it would be considered a FP and the product would be mocked. On the other hand if an Anti-exe blocks that same file because the certificate wasn't on their Trusted Vendors list it would be accepted and the product revered.

Guess FP's are just a matter of one's viewpoint.

 

[Tempnexus]

I will take false positives any day as long as the soft protects my system.

The whole "false" positive thing is only applicable to n00bs -- and that is the basis upon which vendors design their softs. This is why they use default settings that almost guarantees infection sooner or later...

100 Times this!

I mean I don't mind have 5 FP in a month vs 5 infections in a month due to the package being FP friendly.

 

[jamescv7]

The understanding of False Positive must have proper supervision with an experience user, since many novice users may only kill the legitimate program instead to accept it.

Well the prevalence of the program goes on controversial packing or certificates from suspicious source.

So FP is still a minor factor to make user convince to change another product.