AV-C released today the new test. Surpriced that nobody posted the test! but the forum is a little nohelic these days especially the beta corner!
the PDF can be found on http://www.av-comparatives.org/
cannot link to the PDF due to AV-C restrictions, it can be found under Comparative Reviews - Main Tests.
Avast 4.8 scored very high as always with 5 false positives, gaining the Advanced+ award. It was also the fastest in Scanning speed without transient technologies by other contenters, just pure speed.
Surpriced by McAffee that scored high this time but with Artemis (in the cloud) enabled. Also Symantec was expected to be high along with Avira. FSecure seems to be finding its way again. GData has reduced the number of False positives and it was the top of the contenders in terms of Detection but no wonder since it uses the avast engine 8) along with BD engine which scored high as well.
Looking forward to seeing avast 5 scoring a 99.9% in the next test!
Well done Alwil.
Probably cause for a few after work drinks, perhaps?
I know that the “rankings” move around a bit from quarter to quarter. What impresses me is that Avast always ranks quite well, and sometimes (as in this case) very well indeed.
avast 4.8 beat most of AVs with heuristics in detections. Now, what else if avast 5 gets into some comparatives. BOOM. Major reshuffle for Avira & GData.
