02-17-2021 , 12:31 AM
https://www.av-test.org/en/news/20-prote...ance-test/ When malware doesn't have a chance
The key element of the endurance test is the evaluation of a product's protection capability. Here is how the lab goes about it: In the real-world test, the experts use freshly-caught zero-day malware from emails and downloads. These brand-new malware samples are particularly dangerous and also cannot be easily detected by some programs. In the second test, involving the so-called reference set, the lab examines whether the products can also detect already registered malware. All the packages were required to successfully complete a round of testing each month and to detect, quarantine and delete nearly 40,000 malware samples.
More than half the participants, 11 to be exact, passed both test phases of protection evaluation absolutely error-free: Avast, AVG, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, G Data, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, NortonLifeLock and Trend Micro detected all attackers 100 percent.
Whereas the remainder of the test field also managed the reference set error-free, there were issues in the real-world test. BullGuard, for example, detected 99.9 percent. AhnLab, Avira and VIPRE Security achieved high levels of 99.7 and 99.6 percent respectively. From Protected.net on down, the detection rate dropped considerably, however. Here, the results were only 98.4 percent. For K7 Computing, Malwarebytes, Microworld, and PC Matic, the detection rate dropped further from 98 all the way to 93.6 percent.
The key element of the endurance test is the evaluation of a product's protection capability. Here is how the lab goes about it: In the real-world test, the experts use freshly-caught zero-day malware from emails and downloads. These brand-new malware samples are particularly dangerous and also cannot be easily detected by some programs. In the second test, involving the so-called reference set, the lab examines whether the products can also detect already registered malware. All the packages were required to successfully complete a round of testing each month and to detect, quarantine and delete nearly 40,000 malware samples.
More than half the participants, 11 to be exact, passed both test phases of protection evaluation absolutely error-free: Avast, AVG, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, G Data, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, NortonLifeLock and Trend Micro detected all attackers 100 percent.
Whereas the remainder of the test field also managed the reference set error-free, there were issues in the real-world test. BullGuard, for example, detected 99.9 percent. AhnLab, Avira and VIPRE Security achieved high levels of 99.7 and 99.6 percent respectively. From Protected.net on down, the detection rate dropped considerably, however. Here, the results were only 98.4 percent. For K7 Computing, Malwarebytes, Microworld, and PC Matic, the detection rate dropped further from 98 all the way to 93.6 percent.