This Malware Protection Test checks not only the detection rates, but also the protection capabilities, i.e. wants to check that a file is harmless before forwarding it to friends, family or colleagues. This ability remains an important feature of an antivirus product, and is essential for anyone who e.g. That is to say, it only tested the ability of security programs to detect a malicious program file before execution. The File Detection Test we performed in previous years was a detection-only test. If the user is asked to decide whether a malware sample should be allowed to run, and in the case of the worst user decision system changes are observed, the test case is rated as “user-dependent”. If a product does not prevent or reverse all the changes made by a particular malware sample within a given time period, that test case is considered to be a miss.
behavioral detection features to come into play. Any samples that have not been detected by any of these scans are then executed on the test system, with Internet/cloud access available, to allow e.g. Prior to execution, all the test samples are subjected to on-access and on-demand scans by the security program, with each of these being done both offline and online. The methodology used for each product tested is as follows. The Malware Protection Test assesses a security program’s ability to protect a system against infection by malicious files before, during or after execution.
Products were tested at the beginning of September with default settings and using their latest updates. AVG is a rebranded version of Avast.Īll products were installed on a fully up-to-date 64-Bit Microsoft Windows system. Information about additional third-party engines/signatures used inside the products: Tencent (English version), Total Defense and VIPRE use the Bitdefender engine.
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