Battle Top 3 Performers as per AV Comparatives 2024-2022

[Victor M]

I asked ChatGPT to summarize the top 3 performers:

Out of the last 3 years of real life malware testing of AV Comparatives, which are the top 3 performers

Here is the result :

Here are the top performers in AV-Comparatives’ Real-World Protection Test over the last three full years (2022–2024), using a simple medal score (Gold = 3, Silver = 2, Bronze = 1) from AV-Comparatives’ annual Summary Reports:

1. Avast — 8 points (Gold 2023, Gold 2024, Silver 2022). AV-Comparatives+2AV-Comparatives+2
2. AVG — 8 points (Gold 2023, Gold 2024, Silver 2022). (tie for #1) AV-Comparatives+2AV-Comparatives+2
3. Avira — 6 points (Gold 2022, Gold 2024). AV-Comparatives+1

For reference, Bitdefender is next with 5 points (Silver 2023, Silver 2024, Bronze 2022). AV-Comparatives+2AV-Comparatives+2

Sources (Real-World winners sections):
• 2024 Summary Report – Gold: Avast, AVG, Avira, McAfee; Silver: Bitdefender; Bronze: ESET. AV-Comparatives
• 2023 Summary Report – Gold: Avast, AVG; Silver: Bitdefender, Kaspersky; Bronze: G Data. AV-Comparatives
• 2022 Summary Report – Gold: Avira; Silver: Avast, AVG; Bronze: Bitdefender. AV-Comparatives

here’s exactly what I did:

1. Chose one metric: AV-Comparatives’ annual “Real-World Protection Test” medals from the Summary Reports (not the other tests like Malware Protection, Performance, etc.).
2. Limited the window to the last three full years: 2022, 2023, 2024.
3. Scored medals to make them comparable across years: Gold = 3, Silver = 2, Bronze = 1; no medal = 0.
4. Summed each vendor’s points across the three years.
5. Sorted by total points. If totals tie, I kept the tie (no extra tiebreakers like false positives or blocked-URL %).

For transparency, the tallies I calculated:

• Avast: 8 (Silver ’22, Gold ’23, Gold ’24)
• AVG: 8 (Silver ’22, Gold ’23, Gold ’24)
• Avira: 6 (Gold ’22, Gold ’24)
• Bitdefender: 5 (Bronze ’22, Silver ’23, Silver ’24)
• McAfee: 3 (Gold ’24)
• Kaspersky: 2 (Silver ’23)
• ESET: 1 (Bronze ’24)
• G Data: 1 (Bronze ’23)

As has been said by several members, the best way is to pick out good AV's is to take results across several years of tests.

 

[Victor M]

My perfered test is the ATP (advanced threat protection) test. And I use enterprise products.

Here are the Enterprise ATP (targeted-attack) results for the last three reports (2022–2024), ranked by the total number of attacks blocked (out of 45 total scenarios) across the three years.


Top 3 vendors (Enterprise ATP, 2022–2024):

1. Bitdefender — 41/45 (14 in 2022, 14 in 2023, 13 in 2024). AV-ComparativesAV-ComparativesAV-Comparatives
2. ESET — 41/45 (14 in 2022, 13 in 2023, 14 in 2024). AV-ComparativesAV-ComparativesAV-Comparatives
3. Kaspersky — 38/45 (12 in 2022, 13 in 2023, 13 in 2024). AV-ComparativesAV-ComparativesAV-Comparatives

(For context: CrowdStrike totals 37/45 — 11 in 2022, 12 in 2023, 14 in 2024 — just behind #3. AV-ComparativesAV-ComparativesAV-Comparatives)

Per-year score snapshots (Enterprise ATP)​

• 2024: CrowdStrike 14, ESET 14, Bitdefender 13, Kaspersky 13, Avast 13, NetSecurity 8. AV-Comparatives
• 2023: Bitdefender 14, Avast 13, ESET 13, Kaspersky 13, CrowdStrike 12, G Data 12, VIPRE 12, VMware 12. AV-Comparatives
• 2022: Bitdefender 14, ESET 14, G Data 12, Kaspersky 12, Microsoft 11, CrowdStrike 11, Avast 10, VMware 8, Acronis 8. AV-Comparatives

Method: I pulled the official Enterprise ATP PDFs from AV-Comparatives for 2022, 2023, and 2024, then summed each vendor’s “Score” (number of blocked attacks out of 15 per year). Ties are shown as ties by total blocked. AV-ComparativesAV-ComparativesAV-Comparatives

The number 1 and number 2 spot is a tie, ChatGPT admitted it.