Av-Test has tested today Norton Internet Security 2012 , here are the results :
Detection : For this test AV-Test used 125 886 malware samples colected in the recent months.
Norton Internet Security 2012 detected 98.94% of the malware samples.
Removal : AV-Test installed 30 malware samples on a virtual machine.Norton Internet Security 2012 has detected and removed 28 samples.
As a result Norton Internet Security 2012 got a 83.3% disinfection rate for the removal test.
Web-based malware : In the so-called real-world test with zero day threats , NIS 2012 has manage to block all the 51 malicious links, getting a perfect 100% detection rate.
False Positive : Norton Internet Security was tested with 33.000 files , the 2012 suite didn't generate any FP.
The test was published in the German magazine PcWelt. (Read with Google Translate - link)
Detection : For this test AV-Test used 125 886 malware samples colected in the recent months.
Norton Internet Security 2012 detected 98.94% of the malware samples.
Removal : AV-Test installed 30 malware samples on a virtual machine.Norton Internet Security 2012 has detected and removed 28 samples.
As a result Norton Internet Security 2012 got a 83.3% disinfection rate for the removal test.
Web-based malware : In the so-called real-world test with zero day threats , NIS 2012 has manage to block all the 51 malicious links, getting a perfect 100% detection rate.
False Positive : Norton Internet Security was tested with 33.000 files , the 2012 suite didn't generate any FP.
The test was published in the German magazine PcWelt. (Read with Google Translate - link)
