Which in this case, and in these tests, lead to Bitdefender being recommended. But when someone asks for a recommendation for security software, I do my best to offer a solution with the least amount of ways for the user to be compromised. I was really pleased to see you'd beaten out Avria and Symantec for compromises, and frankly smoked McAfee and Microsoft.
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It's no insult to your software, Avast has long been a staple in the realm of reliable free AVs. This includes when that path in is user dependent, as is the case with these tests, and also when there's a higher than 0 number of false positives.
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But after many years of one on one interactions with the average user, and many years of cleaning up machines that had either AV that didn't protect, or allowed the user to allow intrusion through, I generally only recommend software that has a minimum of known paths of intrusion. I did notice they were listed as user dependent. Glad to see you guys are active on the forums! Those are the yellow bars in the results, and the dynamic graph might not explain exactly how that is different from the red bars You can find more details on the AV-comparatives methodology in their "full" reports, which aren't available yet for 2017, but are on the site for previous time periods. Vanquisher71 - if you can get in touch with more info on the issues (do you have screenshots or logs?) you had with AVG, I'd be happy to have our team investigate those.Īzaran - Our prevention rate according to AV-comparatives was 99.7% - important to note that the 0.3% was "user-dependent," from what I have read in the "full" reports which explain this, that means that the threat was detected, but manually allowed through by the user (either by disabling a setting or allowing the threat to proceed despite the warning) We're pretty proud of our next-gen protection in the 2017 versions of Avast and AVG, including the new Behavior Shield. Https /Thanks for mentioning us everybody. Avira looks to have taken a bit of a downward turn as has AVG. Just looked in to this years released tests from AV-Comparative, Avast isn't bad but it's beaten out by BitDefender on protection and false positives. And as far as I know avast is the best free antivirus. Currently I am using avast and I have turned off all the pop up options in the settings.