AV-Comparatives: Malware Removal Test(March - September 2016)

[Petrovic]

 

Ratings
We allowed certain negligible/unimportant traces to be left behind, mainly because a perfect score
can’t be reached due to the behaviour/system-modifications made by some of the malware samples
used. The “removal of malware” and “removal of remnants” are combined into one dimension and we
took into consideration also the convenience. The ratings are given as follows:
a) Removal of malware/traces
• Malware removed, only negligible traces left (A)
• Malware removed, but some executable files, MBR and/or registry changes (e.g. loading
points, etc.) remaining (B)
• Malware removed, but annoying or potentially dangerous problems (e.g. error messages,
compromised hosts file, disabled task manager, disabled folder options, disabled registry
editor, detection loop, etc.) remaining (C)
• Only the malware dropper has been neutralized and/or most other dropped malicious
files/changes were not removed, or system is no longer normally usable; dropped
malicious files are still on the system; removal failed (D)
Convenience:
• Removal could be done in normal mode (A)
• Removal requires booting in Safe Mode or other built-in utilities and manual actions (B)
• Removal requires Rescue Disk (C)
• Removal or install requires contacting support or similar; removal failed (D)

 

Award system
The following award/scoring system has been used:
AA = 100
AB = 90
AC = 80
BA = 70
BB = 60
BC = 50
CA = 40
CB = 30
CC = 20
DD = 0 

 

 

https://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/avc_rem_2016_en.pdf

[pc71520]

Good results for AVG and Tencent.

[MayJoko]

Never heard of Tencent, but I'm happy to see Kaspersky is back on top, I'll never use that defender garbage and hats off to them for trying to push back at Microsoft.

[pc71520]

17 hours ago, MayJoko said:

Never heard of Tencent

http://www.pcmgr-global.com/