Katzenfreund Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 31.01.2018 The reputable German AV-Test Institut at Magdeburg regularly tests antivirus products against a number of criteria: detection, false alarms, speed, usability and burden on resources. This time, 19 such tools were assessed. All attained the minimum score set for satisfactory performance. Three got full marks: Kaspersky, McAfee and Vipre. Closely followed by: BitDefender, TrendMicro and AhnLab. At the bottom came: GData, K7 and MicroWorld eScan. German source (even if you don’t speak German, you’ll see the classification) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman117 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 I notice that 7 get a top rating although one (avira) doesn't score a maximum in protection, surely a prerequisite for a top score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katzenfreund Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 53 minutes ago, sandman117 said: I notice that 7 get a top rating although one (avira) doesn't score a maximum in protection, surely a prerequisite for a top score In the OP report, Avira scored a notch below maximum in detection but was good in the other criteria and ended up a little below the leaders. Full detection performance is of course a primary criterion. The trouble is that it's often accompanied by comparatively a high false detection rate which spoils it. In fact, deleting false "virus" finds can damage your system, something that happened several times in the past, e.g. with AVG, but never with Avira, as far as I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I wouldnt rely to much on those anti virus testing sites If had to rely on one I would only rely on virus bulletin but in reality best way to find out is try one in a test machine latest version with updated virus definitions and then go to crack sites keygen sites download cracks and keygens from unknown websites go to porn sites test there and see what the antivirus does and do this with many different antiviruses at the same time if you dont it could take you months to figure out the best one. You dont know if avtest and av comparatives allows the antivirus to buy testing results or not and virus bulletin may or may not be different. Only real way to tell is what I said above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeetPirate Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I would not trust av-test.org, they might as well admit that they receive kickbacks from BitDefender. The false charts are so blatant it's like they don't even care to put effort. av-test.org claims that Bit Defender is faster in performance than ESET, really? On what parallel universe? I have tried BitDefender and it is complete and utter garbage, it's heavy and lard, and to top it off you could easily wreck your entire OS because half the time it can't be uninstalled. av-test.org also ranks McAfee, Trend Micro, F-Secure, and Windows Defender higher than Vipre, Avira, and Eset in the protection category. Also that F-Secure, Comodo, and Bit Defender ranks higher than Kaspersky in protection category is another joke. I also tried Trend Micro recently, the useless trash deleted a bunch of legitimate cracks and keygens. Not that ESET is perfect in my eyes, I have openly expressed my grievances about their features in the past, but after trying a few alternatives I unwillingly ended up renewing my ESET license simply because the alternatives are worse. Just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrbingStorm Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I have Eset nod 32 antivirus and am more than happy with it.....It just does its job and keeps out of the way. In the past I tried to install Bitdefender and it wouldn't work right and kept crashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nastrahl Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Glad to see that SEP is still on track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioHazard Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I have tested so many AVs. The only one I truly like and use is Kaspersky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morteza Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 On 1/31/2018 at 5:10 PM, Katzenfreund said: 31.01.2018 The reputable German AV-Test Institut at Magdeburg regularly tests antivirus products against a number of criteria: detection, false alarms, speed, usability and burden on resources. This time, 19 such tools were assessed. All attained the minimum score set for satisfactory performance. Three got full marks: Kaspersky, McAfee and Vipre. Closely followed by: BitDefender, TrendMicro and AhnLab. At the bottom came: GData, K7 and MicroWorld eScan. German source (even if you don’t speak German, you’ll see the classification) You can see kaspersky advertisement in left side of website! I can not trust this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radpop Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 On 2/1/2018 at 5:01 PM, pc71520 said: Bad topic header, but... some notes: German AV-TEST examined 20 Internet security suites for Windows 10 in December 2017. The products were evaluated in the categories of protection, performance and usability, and were able to achieve the maximum of 6 points in each category. Kaspersky, McAfee and Vipre got maximum total points - 18.0, other TOP PRODUCTS were AhnLab, Avira, Bitdefender and Trend Micro with their 17.5 total points. For years, Windows Defender always ended up at the bottom of the test table in terms of malware detection. But here’s a surprise: In the meantime, Defender has worked its way up the list with better detection quality and got maximum points of protection. Defender got only 4.0 points of usability, the lab tests of false positives. A noticeably higher system load was generated by the packages from Comodo, K7 Computing, ESET and Panda Security. They received a mere 4.5 to 3.5 points of performance. This is why Eset with its 15.0 points was weakest of all tested antiviruses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 7 hours ago, Radpop said: For years, Windows Defender always ended up at the bottom of the test table in terms of malware detection. But here’s a surprise: In the meantime, Defender has worked its way up the list with better detection quality and got maximum points of protection. Defender got only 4.0 points of usability, the lab tests of false positives. A noticeably higher system load was generated by the packages from Comodo, K7 Computing, ESET and Panda Security. They received a mere 4.5 to 3.5 points of performance. This is why Eset with its 15.0 points was weakest of all tested antiviruses. The best Antivirus for Linux I don't care because I never use one. Windows i don't really care ether but ive been using NOD32 since 2014 and never been infected and i never installed anything based on any test and i think there full of No antivirus can stop a 0day designed to not be detected because they don't have the signature . Keep using that Windows Defender letting Microsoft deciced what you can install on you're PC. Back when I tired it on rs2 when I installed Windows 10 Firewall Control with it brought me PC to a crawl . As soon i disabled it was fine and I installed NOD32 it was still fine. Theres more to and Antivirus than just detection , Theres false positives and performance as well . Most Antivirus who scores high in these test have lots of false positives or they make you're PC crawl. Only reason I use a Antivirus at all on Windows is just encase Ive not been infected with nothing that i know of since 2008. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatman Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 On 05.02.2018 at 10:48 PM, BioHazard said: I have tested so many AVs. The only one I truly like and use is Kaspersky Kaspersky Internet Security is the best one. That's my opinion after 4 years of using KIS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Togijak Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 I always wonder if somebody cares about the test results - how do you think is keeping this test company's alive? @Chatman Doe you use a separate firewall? I was wondering that there is no white list function = the integrated firewall maybe is sufficient for user with only paid software but for user that has to block some software / medicine from internet access Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatman Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 @Togijak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arvinxi Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 I use windows defender for windows 10 and I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katzenfreund Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 UPDATE May 30, 2018 I won't start a new thread, as the intro and testing arrangements are the same as before. So these are the latest comparison test results as they refer to antivirus products for Windows 10 64 bit systems. All candidates comfortably achieved the minimum pass grade. AVIRA and AhnLab achived the maximum 18 points. Just behind them come: Kaspersky, McAfee and Trend Micro. All 5 earn the title “Top Product”. Windows Defender only lost half a point in each category, but that was enough to push it to the bottom third of the results. The following also got full marks for protection (but lost in other categories): Bitdefender, BullGuard, MicroWorld eScan, Norton Security, Vipre and F-Secure. Bitdefender lost a full point for giving too many false positives, F-Secure considerably more. Source (German): https://www.pcwelt.de/a/antivirus-software-fuer-windows-10-im-test,3311840 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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