FYI. AV Comparatives, Real-World Protection Test February-May 2025:
Looks like Windows Defender performed better than I have seen from these tests in the past. Maybe if users cannot re-activate Avast Free antivirus, all is not lost.
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I have to say I’m confused on the data presented here to the Award given.
Though a False positive isn’t good, but better than a False Negative, so I feel the weighting is high especially when true detection rate is 99.5%.
Using your example on Windows defender, it was compromised to a higher degree but had lower false positives. So it is better that they got compromised/infected than scared by a false positive. For me that weighting is wrong.
What I’m interested is Avast, AVG and Norton, which use almost same program and definitions, performs slightly different on tests. I’m not quite sure the difference of these 3 products, but may some protection layers do/don’t exist on each products?
BTW Avira still keeps it’s own definitions though.