http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/detection-test
there was 2.2% missed samples by Avast! (which was 4th worst result of out all tested AV products!)
there was 14 FP (which is exactly in middle (average) out of all tested AV products)
as result Avast! failed to again Advanced+ mark and achieved only Advanced
these results of v8 are ‘bad’ and hopefully it was first and last time v8 failed to stay in top5
discuss …
also it’s good to read AV comparatives False Alarm tests March 2013
http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/false-alarm-tests/259-false-alarm-test-march-2013
from that it’s clear majority of the FP come from detections: Malware-gen and some Trojan-gen
only 3 out of 14 FP were non-generic
While the results aren’t spectacular they need to be put in line with the recent real world results
http://av-comparatives.org/charts/chart1.php
where it’s nearly 100% perfection (98 detected + 2% interaction)
yet please discuss result of AV Comparative Dynamic Tests in it’s own topic here : http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=120974.msg926069#msg926069