Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 Crowned the Best Anti-Virus in the World After New Tests

[BoraMurdar]

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kaspersky-Internet-Security-2014-Crowned-the-Best-Anti-Virus-in-the-World-After-New-Tests-441033.shtml

If you're in the market looking for a truly powerful security product, the engineers over at Dennis Technology Labs could help you pick the one that can really protect your computer.

A new series of tests published by the institute reveals that Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 is the best anti-virus on the market right now, as it protected 100 percent of all computers involved in the research, with a legitimate accuracy and total accuracy of 100 percent.

Norton Internet Security comes second with a protection rate of 99 percent, followed by ESET Smart Security 7 and McAfee Internet Security with 97 percent and 99 percent respectively (the latter, however, achieved lower scores in accuracy tests).

Dennis says that avast! Free Antivirus 9 was the most effective freeware security product, followed by AVG Free Antivirus 2014. “They were both compromised eight times but AVG scored lower as it neutralized many threats while Avast!’s product blocked them instead,” the expert said in the results.

At the same time, the tests revealed that some of the anti-virus solutions currently on the market are leaving almost every decision on the user in the front of the screen, asking for the appropriate action whenever a new threat is detected.

“Most of the products would delegate some decisions to users when installing legitimate software. Products from McAfee and Trend Micro were the most paranoid and onerous to use, while those from AVG, Avira, BitDefender, Kaspersky Lab and Microsoft were unobtrusive, asking no questions and not blocking a single program,” the research paper shows.

According to Dennis Technology Labs, all anti-virus solutions included in the tests had to deal with real-life threats, so the results we're seeing here could be really close to reality, as far as the protection offered to users is concerned.

“The threats used in this test were genuine, real-life threats that were infecting victims globally at the time that we tested the products. The types of infected or malicious sites were varied, which demonstrates that effective anti-virus software is essential for those who want to use the web using a Windows PC. Most threats installed automatically when a user visited the infected webpage. This infection was often invisible to a casual observer,” the company said.

Again, Microsoft's Security Essentials served as the baselines of anti-virus tests and achieved an accuracy score of only 64 percent and leaving some forms of malware reach the computers.

 

[Terry Ganzi]

This test cannot in all honesty be legitimate,find the sucker (aka leech) & u'll find the truth.

 

[Ink]

This test cannot in all honesty be legitimate

Could be, MSE is at the bottom.

 

[Terry Ganzi]

How in the world did norton beat eset? this review make me understand girls when they say it is hard to swallow

 

[Neno]

I didn't tried Norton for nearly 10 years because I hated the product back than (for obvious reasons). After reading a lot about it in past few days I gathered my wits and downloaded Norton 360.
Still cant believe how much I got impressed by it. Actually I do not think I will change it for a (long) time.
I am looking at taskmanager in awe ... Norton 360 takes 10mb's, LOL.

 

[xxtoss23]

lol mse and the bottom

 

[Sven]

McAfee at the top 5? Must be a joke or something.

And I believe this one is a "financially well-supported" test & ranking, so, don't bother yourself about your current software if its not listed here.

 

[BoraMurdar]

I usually don't "believe" in any tests conducted by these AV-Testing Companies, especially because for those financing-supported factors.
But, if you will ask me for the top 3, I would answer the same as the result above : Kaspersky, Norton and ESET, with no particular order.

 

[conceptualclarity]

I've been following the tests lately. This one is surprising with McAfee so high and BitDefender so low. Generally BitDefender and Kaspersky are neck and neck, while McAfee has been down in the swamp with Microsoft Security Essentials.

I wonder why Softpedia provides no link to the original source.

 

[BoraMurdar]

here is the original report
http://www.dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2014/DTL_2014_Q1_Home.1.1.pdf

 

[Exterminator]

I think they like to pick on MSE,just because it is Microsoft.Then again I would think when it's time to turn in the envelope$ Microsoft's is empty.

 

[Rebsat]

Great post bro, thank you

 

[Oxygen]

I don't know if this is true.

 

[vmserv]

This is an interesting security software test done. I haven't exactly followed any of the labs that do the 'testing' recently but I am aware that Norton/Symantec products have improved over the past years. With the introduction of Cloud technologies, detection and its ability to distinguish between safe applications is more effective. The use of traditional AV signatures are no longer variable due to a ever increasing amount of unknown and morphed threats.

I am aware that current McAfee detections (Artemis threat name) are mainly from its cloud network and I believe this is why McAfee has a much higher detection rate in this test.

Trend Micro 2014 still have the same issue of identifying some applications as malicious from its behaviour blockers but I know this has been improved (2015 version, I am beta tester).

Thanks!

 

[trainbus120]

This comparative analysis doesn't satisfy. What parameters were considered. Its really so hard to come to any conclusions about the best AV. Don't agree to this at all.

 

[Littlebits]

Dennis Technology Labs has a long history of posting controversial AV test results. It claims to be an independent testing facility but there is no info where they get their income from. Someone has to be funding their project, maybe Kaspersky?

Never trust so-called independent testing facilities. Nothing today is independent since they have to get resources from other parties.

Thanks.