AV-Test.org Report February 2015 (NEW)

BeSecure · 2015-03-25T15:43:42.000Z

Good news for Team Avast!.Avast! free Antivirus got 6 Points in protection but “Zero-day”(0-day) test is 99%,and FP problem is still there.When qihoo & AVG is get no FP and 100% on Zero-day test why avast! is stand behind this. Pls work on Zero-day threats and FP issues.Avast! Zeroday Protection is good not great.Deepscreen is less effective on zeroday threats. Good going avast!.Hope this type of issues solved in next version of avast!.http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-8/february-2015/avast-free-antivirus-2015-150613/

DavidR · 2015-03-25T15:53:16.000Z

Already a topic on this - https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=168517.0 - Its hard to be first on the forums ;D

BeSecure · 2015-03-26T01:31:49.000Z

DavidR post:2:

Already a topic on this - https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=168517.0 - Its hard to be first on the forums ;D

“Zero-day”(0-day) test is 99%,and FP problem is still there.When qihoo & AVG is get no FP and 100% on Zero-day test why avast! is stand behind this. Pls work on Zero-day threats and FP issues.Avast! Zeroday Protection is good not great.Deepscreen is less effective on zeroday threats. Good going avast!.Hope this type of issues solved in next version of avast!.

RejZoR · 2015-03-26T05:23:28.000Z

I could argue about the FP’s. Test show one thing, but in reality I had so many constant false psoitives with 360 that I replaced it with avast!. Which generated like 1 false positive in real world usage within few years time. I don’t know what they test, but avast! has far less FP’s in real world conditions and I have tons of really old stuff on my system along with really new stuff (ranging from internal beta sotware not seen by their cloud to stuff that is suspicious in nature like no-cd patches and stuff and I never had problems). With all others, always, even with AVG, AVIRA and other bigger “brands”.

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