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4 Places To Find Up-To-Date Antivirus Test Results Online
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October 2013
4 Places To Find Up-To-Date Antivirus Test Results Online
Do you know how effective your antivirus programs is? A variety of
organizations regularly compare antivirus programs, throwing a large amount of
malware samples at them, seeing how they perform, and ranking them in
comparison to each other.
It would be very time-consuming to test 30 different antivirus programs in
virtual machines with a large amount of malware samples yourself, which is why
these test results are so useful.
1. West Coast Labs
West Coast Labs provides "real-time" test results for popular free antivirus
products: A link to the site is below.
http://westcoastlabs.com/realTimeTesting/article/?articleID=1
Microsoft Security Essentials, Avira, Avast, AVG, and PC Tools. These antivirus
programs are tested against a stream of newly-collected malware samples
gathered 24/7. The real-time nature of the results is unique. Other
organizations put together new test results monthly - or even less often.
2. Virus Bulletin
Virus Bulletin magazine regularly tests antivirus products. Products that
detect all virus samples with no false positives receive the VB100 award. To
see how an antivirus program is doing, you can look at a variety of reports,
including a chart that averages performance over the last four tests, found
here.
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/latest_comparative/index
and a summary of the last five tests, found here.
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/summary
The products at the top of the chart are doing fairly well, while you're
probably better off avoiding the products that are consistently at the bottom.
3. AV-Comparatives
AV-Comparatives regularly performs a variety of tests, including real-world
protection tests, file detection tests, and malware removal tests. The results
of these tests are published on their website, found here.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
For a quick look at how different antivirus programs are doing, you can view a
chart of real world test results here:
http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart2.php
Iif using a screenreader, press the letter h once when arriving at the above
link to reach the start of the results.
Or read the annual summary report found here.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/summary-reports/
If using a screenreader, press the letter h once to land on this summary.
This report is published in December of each year and summarizes how the
security products performed in tests over the previous year.
4. AV Test
AV Test performs regular tests of antivirus programs, ranking their ability to
protect a computer, how well they repair infections, and their usability (which
includes how much they slow down your computer). The test results found here:
http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/
Screenreaders sould press the letter h to move through headings when reaching
the above link.
Results display how well an antivirus performed on different versions of
Windows, although no Windows 8 test results are available yet.
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You don't necessarily have to switch antivirus products if your program isn't
at the very top of the charts - these results change from month to month,
anyway - but these test results can give you an idea of how well your antivirus
is performing. If you're using one of the products that's consistently at the
bottom of the charts, you'll probably want to switch. While these tests may not
be perfect, they're the best thing we have for evaluating how effective
antivirus programs actually are.
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Comments (12)
1.November 24, 2012
Bobby
Shouldn't Virus Total be on this list? In a way, it's a good indication of what
catches what. I keep a vault of old viruses and sometimes I'll analyze them
with Virus Total to see which antivirus can detect these.
You'd be surprised. 5 year old virus, gets detected by only a 3rd of antivirus
engines.
2.November 24, 2012
Keeprunning
Read customer reviews before switching av software. I almost switched to
bitdefender based on the information above, but reading customer reviews pushed
me back. Words like "poor east european company", "bad customer service",
"slowing computer", "deleting personal files in safebox" etc. expose the other
side of the protection.
3.November 24, 2012
TechGeek01
You gys know ths aeticle shows up twice in the RSS feed, right?
4.November 24, 2012
Me
@Bobby - VT is good, but scans a target on demand using multiple engines. These
are all overall results comparing the engines.
Re old viruses: years ago I ran my own tests with ~100 floppy & doc viruses I'd
collected at work and found the same thing. I asked my McAfee rep about it and
they responded, "We remove old and inactive virus signatures from our
database."
I'd assume the same thing is still happening - because after all, no _ever_
restores old files from backup tapes, do they?
@KeepR: I completely agree, but also remember that there are a few users are
either morons or trolls. A lot of good comments with only a few complaints -
examine those complains Very Carefully to make sure they're accurate. OTOH,
discard a few of the "Best Ever" glowing reports as well.
5.November 24, 2012
Chemical
There is absolutely no need to pay for antivirus protection.
With free offerings such as Microsoft Security Essentials (Microsoft finally
steps up to the plate to better protect their O.S.) AVG, Avast, and Panda Cloud
you can put your wallet away.
6.November 25, 2012
Jane
2001-2007 I used AVG only got few viruses, only real pain was downloading new
version, removing old version, installing new version.Then talking a few
friends thru the same process over the phone. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.. that
really was painful
2007- got new computer with Vista and issues with AVG. Avast was one of few
that would work and sounded most user friendly.
Avast gave me no problems. After a period of time, a newer version was
released. Only way I knew was with a popup saying my Avast Program engine was
updated.
I checked and sure enogh, Avast installed its' own new version and removed old.
I fell in love.
The next time my friends called about updating AVG, I talked them thru the
switch and none of us have looked back.
7.November 25, 2012
Bgarner
I agree with you, Jane. Also a former AVG user with all the same issues.
Switched to Avast & am so glad I did. Very user friendly and simple to use.
8.November 25, 2012
EIW
I clicked on West Coast Labs . Real Time Tets and this is what I got..
To read the full review get the May 2011 issue of PC & Tech Authority on sale
from April 6.
MAY 2011??? Real time tests? give me a break.
9.November 25, 2012
CJ
Another VERY useful article from Mr Hoffman. Plus it's nice to have the
professional recommendations I have been making for years vindicated. I agree
with Jane, above, on AVG. It used to be my number one recommendation, until
Avast came out and was much simpler and caused me much fewer support phone
calls. I have now personally installed either Avast or Security Essentials on
over 800 client and/or friend machines in the past 5 years. I almost never
touch a machine without doing so.
The deciding factor between the 2 is simple: If the client is savvy enough not
to get sucked into the paid version of Avast, (or well off enough to afford it,
good companies do deserve some support!) I install Avast, first choice. Paid
Avast is also installed on all the servers I admin.
If the above conditions are not present, (fixed income elderly clients who
barely know which mouse button to use, for instance) I install Security
Essentials.
I have seen both products fail to prevent virus or malware infection, sure. But
damn rarely. And usually only when someone insists on installing some crap even
when they are warned.
10.November 27, 2012
Ran
Having been in the business for 18 yrs now over 90% of my virus calls are with
computers that have one of these free programs on it. being cheap on line these
days is not worth it.Just keep all your important data pics and such back-up. I
am great-full for such articles. It helps everyone become a little wiser. Just
remember you get what you pay for, always have and always will.
11.November 28, 2012
Ron
I have my own business as well and most of my virus calls are people running MS
Essentials, or some other free AV. (Fixed a Win 7 with MS Essentials last night
that was so infectected, couldn't use the machine.) That service call cost them
what a paid product would have cost.
12.January 16, 2013
Jay
Ran and Ron must sell anti-virus programs as the 10 years that I've had a
computer I never got a virus and all I use are the free programs mentioned
above.
Chris Hoffman is a technology writer and all-around computer geek. He's as at
home using the Linux terminal as he is digging into the Windows registry.
Connect with him on Google+.
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