http://www.av-comparatives.org/detection-test/
Click on File Detection Test September 2014
You will see Avast has total 120 FPs
There was another thread like this that was deleted later. This is not looking good…
Also, Avast is getting worse detection results lately than it had before. What is happening?
I don’t know what was the cause for this, but basing some sort of conclusions on a single such unusual event is crazy. avast! never had such abnormal number of false positives so clearly something went seriously wrong…
That FP test doesn’t say anything at all.
Where is the list with samples that they have used?
What settings did they use in all the av’s?
Example:
They use 100 samples.
75 installers created with NullSoft, 25 Created with other install creators.
avast has a flaw in de vps if it comes to scanning installer created with NullSoft.
Sure, avast will fail at 75/100
But it does not mean that avast has a lot of FP’s.
In fact it is just 1.
Samples: http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/avc_fps_201409_en.pdf
Settings: If I remember correctly they enable all settings (cloud, heuristics, etc), but I’m sure you can find the settings somewhere on their site.