On-Demand Detection Test released (Aug) By AV-Comparatives

[jamescv7]

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Symantec have lots of FP and downgraded to Advance Award. For McAfee Perfect 0 FP.

 

[Jack]

Some interesting results....Norton had definitely some bad results..average detection rate and a lot of FP's.


Here are the results :

Detection rate :

1. G DATA – 99.7%
2. Trustport – 99.6%
3. Avira, Qihoo – 99.5%
4. Panda – 99.3%
5. F-Secure, eScan – 98.5%
6. BitDefender – 98.4%
7. Kaspersky – 98.3%
8. ESET (Nod32), Avast! – 97.3%
9. McAfee – 96.8%
10. Trend Micro – 96.6%
11. AVG -95.7%
12. Symantec (Norton) – 95.1%
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13. K7 – 85.6%

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Performace test:

Fastest :

1. Avast – 16.4 MBs
2. Trend Micro – 15.3 MBs
3. K7 – 13.7 MBs
4. McAfee – 12.9 MBs
5. Avira – 12.3

Slowest :

1. eScan
2. TrustPort,
3. PC Tools
4. Qihoo
5. Microsoft

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False Positive(lower is better) :

• McAfee – 0
• Kaspersky, Microsoft, Panda – 1,
• ESET – 3
• F-Secure, Trend Micro – 6
• BitDefender – 8
• Avast – 10
• Avira – 11
• Symantec – 57
• TrustPort – 59

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Best Free Antivirus :
ADVANCED+ : Avast!, Avira AntiVir Personal si Panda
ADVANCED  : AVG, MSE

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Overall results :

ADVANCED '+' : G Data, Avira, Panda, F-Secure, BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, Avast!, McAfee, Trend Micro
ADVANCED: Trustport, Qihoo, eScan, AVG, Symantec, Microsoft
STANDARD -
Failed : PC Tools, K7

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[GabiCRX]

What happened to Norton, 95,1% detection and 57 FPs !
That's not good !

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

What happened to Norton, 95,1% detection and 57 FPs !
That's not good !

^^That's why I don't trust Symantec at all.

 

[LochNess]

I can definitely confirm increased FP's... For example, I ran a 'Full Scan' with NIS2012 resulting in 3 FP's... I immediately ran NPE with 0 FP's... (also mbam and hmp... 0 FP's...)

When considering the results, I'm guessing they 'simply' rushed the 'Beta' out of the door too quickly...

 

[NathanF1]

G-DATA and Trustport leading the way. And just 0.1% behind Trustport - the [lately] overlooked and dismissed by a lot of people Avira! Advanced+ award and very good scan speed.

Didn't expect F-Secure, BitDefender and Kaspersky to be clustered in these lowly positions [the second not convincing F-Secure performance in a row], but for me Symantec is definitely the disappointment of the test. Not only is the detection low, but the scan speed is slipping too.

Freeware fanatics rejoice - Avira, Panda and avast have got you covered!

 

[jamescv7]

False Positives for Symantec was surprise, it could be the cloud feature, signatures or Sonar itself flagged those false alarm items.

 

[Nathan Wootton]

do you know why McAfee didn't have any false positives? because it probably didn't detect anything LOL

 

[win7holic]

yes. you're right nathan
personally, i didn't reccomend to all people to use mcafee.