Dennis Technology Labs -Home Anti-Virus Protection tests: October - December 2015

[Petrovic]

 

 

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[straycat19]

Interesting that they didn't include BitDefender in their tests.

[steven36]

19 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

Interesting that they didn't include BitDefender in their tests.

This the only test I like because the test measures not only how many threats are detected but also the number of false positives, allowing for an overall accuracy. All the others incl false positives as threats . I would only find the fact they dont incl BD interesting if i used it  witch I never have no matter how many free giveawys it gets  lol.

[Holmes]

I thought dennis isnt trustworthy well norton being number one and mcafee is on there something is wrong and avast doesnt get the credit it deserves.  I honestly think the best virus testing site is virus bulletin.

[steven36]

If they cant pass the test  they shouldn't get credit  , everyone knows avast has a lot false positives with legitimate programs . Norton , Kaspersky and Eset all done good in the test .

I have my doubts  about any of the antivirus test because no test can 100% simulate  over a billion  other windows users machines .   I take them all with a grain of salt  and use what i want .

 

I been watching  all  antivirus  test  for years  and they have no impact on the maretshare what so ever  its not like the masses pay any mind too them.

Microsoft and  Avast  own the majorly of the market for many years.

 

 

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These days you don't have to download a Trojan to get infested by malware. Drive-by downloads and other sneaky techniques can infest your computer just because you surfed to a malicious or hacked site. To evade detection, the bad guys often configure their nasty code so it doesn't attack every visitor. It might attack one visitor in ten, or only trigger once for a given block of IP addresses. Researchers at Dennis Technology Labs take these tactics into account when testing antivirus software with a test system that ensures each product gets hit by precisely the same attack. It's meant to be as close as you can come to a real user's experience.

 

Every day for two months, the researchers select newly-discovered malicious sites and use a capture/replay system to present each of ten antivirus products with the exact same scenario. The number of products is low because this test is seriously labor-intensive. After two months of testing, they collect and analyze the results to produce a quarterly report.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2482246,00.asp

[dMog]

i am using vipre,,,and depending where you look they are non -existent in these tests or place anywhere from average to top two

[pc71520]

Norton = Kaspersky = ESET

[Holmes]

I meant avast doesnt get the credit it deserves as for how good it is in general not based on those tests.  The ARK (anti-rootkit) program gmer is the best anti-rootkit program there is one of the best and it is integrated into avast and as for false positives I have never seen avast give a false positive on my moms computer when I used it on mine and on any friends computer's that I recommended avast to and my dad used avast and i dont know about his computer he never complained about avast he always said it was good.  I think norton is getting better unless those test results are paid for.  If gmer is integrated into avast then that plus the integration of virtualization being used to detect stealth rootkit's makes avast a alot deadlier against malware then users realize.

[steven36]

23 minutes ago, Holmes said:

I meant avast doesnt get the credit it deserves as for how good it is in general not based on those tests. 

Who cares?  Avast makes more money than the rest of them though it and  M$  does . the last time i tested Avast it was using way too much process in my browser so i switch back to NOD32 . I used Avast from about 2011-2014 in 2014 i switched to NOD32 .  You seem to not understand the concept of a test ether the make the grade are they dont . This time avast didn't make the grade . Its up to the developers  to improve it.  these test are not about giving praise to vendors .  Giving praise is nothing but PR

[Holmes]

Obviously there are users that do myself included I want the anti-viruses I use (Im using eset nodthirtytwo to test the advanced memory scanner after I have done my testing with it Im switching back to avast) and my family and friends use to be good.  Like you said no test can mimic over how many different computer's there are in the world.  I fully understand the concept of a test what do you have to say for the tests that have inaccurate results or anti-virus vendor paid for remember the testing site that was in the news about accepting tests results illegitimately they made the grade not legitimately.  I dont know how much I fully trust dennis labs there was a article in these forums about it talking about something negative that happened with there tests.  I trust virus bulletin the most and av comparatives to.  For your information avast did make the grade it scored a triple a on this test.

[humble3d]

On 1/17/2016 at 11:33 AM, straycat19 said:

Interesting that they didn't include BitDefender in their tests.

 

Or avira ??  One must wonder... 

[Holmes]

Avira is pretty good to maybe they contacted bitdefender and avira and the tests started and they got back to dennis technology labs to late that has happened before.

[steven36]

13 hours ago, humble3d said:

 

Or avira ??  One must wonder... 

So many false positives  it would fail any test  that detect false positives as false,,  its worse than Avast  and its not the same light  product  it use to be.  the free verson  dont even have exclude  so it will just eat stuff you dont want it too. 

[Holmes]

Its not worst then avast avast is pretty good Everyone I know including myself has never experienced false positives your making that up.  Stop spreading fake fud about avast.

[steven36]

Good read here about Avast  and all its intrusive popups 

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/2y9pcz/avast_sucks_now_which_one_of_these_3_antivirus/

[Holmes]

Funny no mention of false positives with avast in that article it mentions avira and false positives and that maybe true I havent used avira pc world recommended it in one of my magazines.  There are two comments in that article about avast one about popups and one saying its gotten worse I agree they need to stop developing useless programs like password manager aside from that I had my avast on my computer set perfectly and never had problems my moms is set perfectly to never messes with her my friend just installed avast on his friends computer no problems what avast are they using lawls.

[steven36]

One time i downloaded a java installer  off the front page  and avast said it was a virus also back when I use to use AMD Catalyst it was deleting it and that was my drivers . Also it was flagging my audio converter . This was back in 2014 right before  I switched  to NOD32 . After I  made the switch I had no more problems  with FP . I dont care if you use Avast as long I dont have too . I even beta tested for Avast before at Avast forums  .Like I said i used for a lot years before but its not my cup of tea anymore.  Also users of Steam ,  Windows components  and every thing did get fp from it

Avast false positive trashes Windows code libraries

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/07/avast_false_positive_snafu/

 

 

 

[Holmes]

It must not have liked you or your system I have steam had steam when I used avast it didnt flag steam as anything or any windows components it did give the nsane front page a HTML/Refresh.BC trojan I get that with eset to have submitted it to eset and Im standing by for them to fix it.  One misfiring signature update caused problems its been one year to I was using eset at the time thats why I didnt experience it and eset has had false positives here and there and when I catch them I send it to eset for them to fix it thats all you have to do why come on here trash talking them each antivirus from all the three testing sites virus bulletin included has seen at one time each antivirus give a false positive.  If something happened to kaspersky and eset I would use avast same with eset and avast I would use kaspersky and same with kaspersky and avast I would use eset.

[steven36]

10 minutes ago, Holmes said:

It must not have liked you or your system

it didn't have nothing to do with my system . Its Avast  gets a lot of bad signatures at times.  At lest it use too  back in 2014 . Last time I tested it in 2015 for a few days it was a processes hog in my browser so i put Nod32 back in.  My Mom dont trust it ether  she bought Kaspersky again  with safe money  banking and got me to uninstall Avast and put KIS in. 

[Holmes]

That wasnt alot of bad signatures that was one faulty signature (when I used avast I never got a faulty signature I heard of users getting them) I never did and if you dont install some of the dumb crap avast offers like browser crap your good to go.  I love the safezone avast offers and eset has that now to havent tested it yet.