AV-Test ~ CHIMALOGY

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Note:

This is another independence test conducted by AV-Test. (June 2011)

*Anti-virus that are used in these tests are used on their default settings which mean some had their heuristic turned on while the other did not turn on which resulted in the difference in the detection and false positive rate.

Chimalogy:

I believe False Positives is to be taken into account as it sometime cause as much or more damage/impact than a real infection.

I ranked according to the Score they achieved > Number of False Positives > Detection Rate > Repair.

Protection

"We" test the protective effect of security solutions by installing them on a non-infected system and examining how they respond to malware threats.

"We" do so by simulating a variety of attack scenarios such as the threat of e-mail attachments, infected websites or malicious files that have been transferred from external storage devices.

When carrying out these tests, AV-TEST takes the entire functionality of the protection program into account.

Here are the final score of Protection:

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This is a summary of Protection Test. Maximum score is 6.0. Anything that is below 4.0 is not recommended to be use.

The number inside the bracket means the following: Protection/Blocking/Detection
(The higher the score the better).

Top 3* for Protection Test are BitDefender, Kaspersky, and AVG.

Repair

The repair performance of products is analysed using a system that is already infected.

"We" evaluate the products' ability to remove active malware and to restore other system changes as well as its performance when detecting and removing specially hidden malware (rootkits).

Here are the final score of Repair:

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This is a summary of Repair test. Maximum score is 6.0. Anything that is below 4.0 is not recommended to be use.

The number inside the bracket means the following: Removal/Detection (The higher the score the better).

Top 3* for Repair Test are Kaspersky, BitDefender, and F-Secure.

Usability

"We" investigate the influence that security software has on the usability of the system and the system interferences that occur, for example: warning messages, general messages and blockages, false positives during system scans and the computer slowing down while the software is being used.

Here are the final score of Usability:

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This is a summary of Usability test. Maximum score is 6.0. Anything that is below 4.0 is not recommended to be use.

The number inside the bracket means the following: Slow down/False Positives (The lower the score the better).

Top 3* for Usability Test are BitDefender , ESET and Microsoft.

ESET had the lowest impact on the system among all Anti-Virus that are tested. But due to False Positives, it had dropped 1 rank.

Overall Score

I decide to summarized the score to see the average score that each anti-virus had performed.

Here are the final score of Overall Score:

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This is a summary of Overall test. Maximum score is 18.0. Anything that is below 11.0 is not recommended to be use.

The number inside the bracket means the following: Slow down/False Positives (The lower the score the better).

Top 3* for Overall Score Test are BitDefender, Kaspersky and F-Secure.

Here are the Anti-Virus who had achieved AV-TEST award:

Passed:

Avast: Free AntiVirus 6.0
AVG: Internet Security 10.0
Avira: Premium Security Suite 10.0
BitDefender: Internet Security Suite 2011
BullGuard: Internet Security 10.0
ESET: Smart Security 4.2
F-Secure: Internet Security 2011
G Data: Internet Security 2012
GFI: Vipre Antivirus Premium 4.0
Kaspersky: Internet Security 2011 & 2012
Microsoft: Security Essentials 2.0
Panda: Internet Security 2011 & 2012
Sophos: Endpoint Security and Control 9.5 & 9.7
Symantec: Norton Internet Security 2011
Trend Micro: Titanium Internet Security 2011
Webroot: Internet Security Complete 7.0

Failed:

Comodo: Internet Security Premium
K7 Computing: Total Security
McAfee: Total Protection
Norman: Security Suite Pro
PC Tools: Internet Security
CA: Internet Security Suite

Reference:

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/test-reports/quarter-22011/

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