Malware Hub Report McAfee Total Protection - October 2019 Report

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McAfee Total Protection - October 2019 Report
Due to the small number of samples used in this tests, you should take results with a grain of salt. We encourage you to compare these results with others and take informed decisions on what security products to use.
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C: Clean / P: Protected / P - NC: Protected - Not Clean / I: Infected / E: Encrypted


* Dynamic BB Bonus Test (Resident Protection Disabled)
* Partially Blocked
* BSR: Before System Reboot
* ASR: After System Reboot



October
2019
Samples
Pack
Static
Detection
Dynamic
Detection
Total
Detection
System Files
Encrypted
2nd Opinion
Scanners
System
Final Status
Thread
Link
20/10/2019​
2​
1 / 2​
0 / 1
0 / 1*
1 / 2​
Yes*
C
N/A*
P
E*
21/10/2019​
21​
13 / 21​
0 / 8​
13 / 21​
No​
C: HMP ZAM3 EEK
I: WV NPE MWB3
BSR: I
ASR: I
21/10/2019​
1​
1 / 1​
0 / 1*
1 / 1
0 / 1*
No
Yes*
C
N/A*
C
I + E*
22/10/2019​
1​
0 / 1​
0 / 1​
0 / 1​
No​
I
I
23/10/2019​
1​
1 / 1​
N/A​
1 / 1​
No​
C
C
23/10/2019​
1​
1 / 1​
N / A​
1 / 1​
No​
C
C
23/10/2019​
20​
12 / 20​
2 / 8​
14 / 20​
No​
C: ZAM3 NPE
I: WV HMP
BSI: I
ASR: P - NC
24/10/2019​
13​
7 / 13​
1 + 1* / 6​
8 + 1* / 13​
No​
C: ZAM3
I: WV HMP NPE
BSR: I
ASR: I
25/10/2019​
1​
1 / 1​
N/A​
1 / 1​
No​
C
C
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harlan4096

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Well guys, I finished testing for a while McAfee, as You can see:
  • Signatures are not so good.
  • Took long to add new detections (even sending them the samples).
  • Behaviour Blocker should improve greatly, it has serious problems stopping scripts and Java jar files.
 

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