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How do you pick a security product? Which independent testers do you trust, and why?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 941415" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>It would be hard to find a testing procedure with a "realistic scenario" for all people. Anyway, we have several AV labs that perform reliable tests of Home AVs (Consumer section) - although their testing scenarios are different (AV-Comparatives, AVLab, AV-Test, SE Labs).</p><p></p><p>These tests are not useful for most people, because the results of one particular test are not meaningful (pretty much random for many AVs). That is why the AV labs recommend many AVs, even when they have different scorings. Two AVs can have the same average protection against millions of in-the-wild samples. But at the same time, they can miss a different number of samples when tested on hundreds of samples. So, one has to analyze the results of many tests to see the real picture.</p><p></p><p>The tests are usually done for AVs with default settings, which does not show the strength of some AVs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 941415, member: 32260"] It would be hard to find a testing procedure with a "realistic scenario" for all people. Anyway, we have several AV labs that perform reliable tests of Home AVs (Consumer section) - although their testing scenarios are different (AV-Comparatives, AVLab, AV-Test, SE Labs). These tests are not useful for most people, because the results of one particular test are not meaningful (pretty much random for many AVs). That is why the AV labs recommend many AVs, even when they have different scorings. Two AVs can have the same average protection against millions of in-the-wild samples. But at the same time, they can miss a different number of samples when tested on hundreds of samples. So, one has to analyze the results of many tests to see the real picture. The tests are usually done for AVs with default settings, which does not show the strength of some AVs. [/QUOTE]
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