Bi-monthly stats released for 31 consumer and business products.
Independent testing body
Av-Test.org
has published its latest round of results, covering some 23 consumer products and eight business solutions, all tested during January and February. All products featured in this month’s report qualified for
AV-Test
‘s certification.
The test scheme covers a wide range of measures, split into three categories: ‘Protection’, which includes static detection measures over high-prevalence and more diverse sets of malware samples, as well as live ‘real-world’ testing against a smaller selection of the latest threats; ‘Repair’, which covers detection and removal of active malware, including rootkits; and ‘Usability’, which includes impact on system performance and false positive testing, in both static scanning and when downloading, installing and using legitimate software. A maximum of six points is awarded for each category.
The consumer test requires a minimum total of 11 points to earn certification, while in the business product test the cut-off is either 10 points or at least 3.5 in two of the three categories.
In the consumer test, the top performer was
BitDefender
with 17 out of a possible 18, closely followed by
Kaspersky
with 16.5 and
F-Secure
with 15.5.
Also putting in good performances were
AVG
‘s
Internet Security
(the paid-for version) and
Symantec
‘s
Norton
, both with 15 points, and
Norman
‘s
Security Suite
,
Panda
‘s
Cloud Antivirus
and
Internet Security
products, and
Webroot
‘s
SecureAnywhere
, all scoring 14.5. Just behind them were free products from
Avast
and
AVG
, and
G Data
‘s
Internet Security
, which scored 14 points,
Avira
,
BullGuard
and
Trend Micro
‘s
Titanium
with 13.5 points, and
K7
‘s
Total Security
and
McAfee
‘s
Total Protection
with 13 points.
Bringing up the rear were
GFI VIPRE
,
Microsoft
‘s
Security Essentials
and
Qihoo 360
which scored 12.5 points, while
AhnLab
,
ESET
and
PC Tools
just scraped by with 11 points, the minimum required to earn certification.
In the corporate test,
Kaspersky
‘s
Endpoint Security
led the pack with 16 points, well ahead of
F-Secure
‘s
Client Security
on 14.5.
Symantec
‘s
Endpoint Protection
, with 13.5 points, was just ahead of
McAfee
‘s
VirusScan Enterprise
and
Sophos
‘
Endpoint Security and Control
, both of which scored 13 points, and
Microsoft
‘s
Forefront Endpoint Protection
which scored 12.5 points. At the bottom of the table were two products from
Trend Micro
:
Worry-Free Business Security
scored 11 points, and
Office Scan
scored 9 points – both were let down by a poor performance in the cleaning category.
The tests were run on
Windows XP
with SP3. Full details of the results, including a breakdown for each product, can be found at the
AV-Test
website,
here
.
Posted on 26 March 2012 by
Virus Bulletin
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