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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1120840" data-attributes="member: 114717">The tests are for marketing. They are not designed nor intended to make, what you would consider, meaningful distinctions in security capabilities and protections between the test participant software/products.Such a test would be so expensive that nobody in the AV industry would participate. Even if they did hand over the cash, every vendor that did poorly would never participate again. Both of these facts work against AV test labs.Emsisoft stopped the test lab participation because, on average, the cost for a single test is approximately 65,000 Euros nowadays. F-Secure and G Data stopped (participating in AV Comparatives, for a while) because they were always placing poorly, and their position was that the tests were not truly reflective of the software&#039;s protection abilities.F-Secure, at that time, was correct. G Data was not because its software has some serious problems, which I&#039;m going to bet have not been fixed to this very day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1120840, member: 114717"] The tests are for marketing. They are not designed nor intended to make, what you would consider, meaningful distinctions in security capabilities and protections between the test participant software/products. Such a test would be so expensive that nobody in the AV industry would participate. Even if they did hand over the cash, every vendor that did poorly would never participate again. Both of these facts work against AV test labs. Emsisoft stopped the test lab participation because, on average, the cost for a single test is approximately 65,000 Euros nowadays. F-Secure and G Data stopped (participating in AV Comparatives, for a while) because they were always placing poorly, and their position was that the tests were not truly reflective of the software's protection abilities. F-Secure, at that time, was correct. G Data was not because its software has some serious problems, which I'm going to bet have not been fixed to this very day. [/QUOTE]

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