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AV Comparatives Annual Report - 2015


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Summary-Report December 2015

Release date: 19 January 2016

 

 Summary Reports

Annually we release a summary report that collates the results of the various tests. We then give awards and comment on product abilities.

The Product of the Year award goes to the vendor whose software performed best overall in the main test series. Finally, a number of products which reached a very high overall standard are given the Top Rated award. The Summary Reports also include individual reviews of each of the programs tested by AV-Comparatives in the main test series. The reviews cover the program’s user interface and everyday tasks such as updating and scanning, to give readers an idea of what the software is like to use in real life, and how well-suited it is to both expert and non-expert users.

 

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http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/avc_sum_201512_en.pdf

 

Overall winner of 2015 (Product of the Year)

 For AV-Comparatives Product of the Year award, all tests in the public main-test series are taken into consideration. This year, both Bitdefender and Kaspersky Lab  received an Advanced+ award in all of these tests, i.e. were equally high scoring. In such cases, we use the following as a tiebreaker: the product that has not won the award before or the product that won it less recently, is given the award. On this basis, AV-Comparatives 2015 Product of the Year award goes to Kaspersky Lab.

 

                                                      Kaspersky Lab

 

 

Top Rated Products 2015

 

This  year,  like last  year,  a  number of  products  reached  a  very high  standard  in  all  our  tests. Although we only have one Product of the Year, we recognise all those products with good overall results by giving them the AV-Comparatives Top Rated award.

 

We  have used the results over the year to designate products  as Top  Rated.  Results  from all the tests are assigned points as follows: Tested = 0, Standard = 5, Advanced = 10, Advanced+ = 15. Products with 90 points or more were given the Top Rated award, with two conditions. Firstly, any products that failed to win any award (i.e. got 0 points) in either of the Real-World Protection tests have not been considered. Secondly, good results in the performance tests cannot make up for weak results in the detection/protection  tests. We  intend to give the Top  Rated  award again next year, but the criteria may be modified.

 

 TOP Rated products for 2015  are, in alphabetical order: Avast, AVIRA, Bitdefender, Emsisoft, eScan, ESET

 

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Kaspersky: 5 awards (2004, 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2015).
ESET: 2 awards (2006 and 2007).
Bitdefender: 2 awards (2012 and 2014).
AVIRA: 1 award (2008 )
Symantec: 1 award (2009)
F-Secure: 1 award (2010)

 

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To me, these awards feel like a sport my country loves. Everyone takes part in it and plays it. But there is only one team who always wins it. :P

 

Still ESET though.

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