http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php
[b]Avast!-98.6%,FP-1 Bad for Avast!
AVG-99.4%,FP-0
AVIRA-99.4%,FP-3 Microsoft-97.7,FP-0 Kaspersky-99.7%,FP-0 Lavasoft-99.4%,FP-0
I’ve used Avast since 2003. I’ve also seen Avast on the top of the list and somewhat further down on that list.
Over the long haul, it’s always kept me safe.
I honestly don’t pay much attention to these detection figures, I doubt they reflect the reality of the day to day running of an AV. There’s more to an AV than getting 100% in a test. 98.6% isn’t catastrophically bad.
I wonder how will they test CyberCapture considering verdicts may arrive hours later when they are doing the test. How will they treat files caught by CiberCapture but not received any verdict yet during the test period? Will AV-C actually wait for verdicts or how will they count detected/missed?
Yeah, we know how that goes with avast!. New feature today, actually half working 1 year later. When they notice it wasn’t really useful and they remove it entirely. Same old story for the last couple of years…
PUP (potentially unwanted program) detection would make little difference in these tests and I doubt the others tested would have had it active either, Microsofts PUP detection is only available after a registry change so they’re being tested without that feature also.