AV Comparatives Business Security Test August-September 2018

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Test Results

Real-World Protection Test (August-September)

This fact sheet gives a brief overview of the results of the Business Real-World Protection Test run in August and September 2018. The overall business product reports (each covering four months) will be released in July and December. For more information about this Real-World Protection Test, please read the details available at https://www.av-comparatives.org. The results are based on a test set consisting of 599 test cases (such as malicious URLs), tested from the beginning of August till the end of September.

 

	Blocked	User dependent	Compromised	PROTECTION RATE [Blocked % + (User dependent %)/2]*	False Alarms
Bitdefender, Kaspersky Lab	599	–	–	100%	0
Vipre	598	–	1	99.8%	0
Trend Micro	598	–	1	99.8%	22
Microsoft	597	2	–	99.8%	38
McAfee	597	–	2	99.7%	4
Avast	596	–	3	99.5%	0
FireEye	595	–	4	99.3%	0
CrowdStrike	595	–	4	99.3%	1
Panda	595	–	4	99.3%	4
Endgame	592	–	7	98.8%	1
ESET	591	–	8	98.7%	1
eScan	590	–	9	98.5%	2
Emsisoft	589	–	10	98.3%	0
Fortinet	578	–	21	96.5%	1
Saint Security	449	–	150	75.0%	0

* User-dependent cases are given half credit. For example, if a program blocks 80% by itself, and another 20% of cases are user-dependent, we give half credit for the 20%, i.e. 10%, so it gets 90% altogether.

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