yes this is the first time so no worries we will be back at our rank 
Good morning and Happy Holidays to everyone!
The are many unique and diverse opinions/comments regarding the recent Avast test results shown here...which I find quite interesting. Although, I may not be one of the more knowledgeable forum members about such issues, I would venture to say that there is probably NO AV on the market today which has not ([i]at one time or another[/i]), had a less than satisfactory rating/review following a series of AV tests.
For myself, what matters is the companyās track record at improving any deficiencies noted in their product(s), and what a computer userās preferences are, based on their own personal experiences with those product(s).
In closing, I again wish everyone a really nice holiday season! 
I admit if avast doesnāt really good in retrospective BUT avast really good if you always update your database, and i think all av not only avast must have latest database signature for securing PC. So i actually feel like wasting time for testing antivirus which has out of date virus database. And for avast detection with up to date signature you can check in on-demand test and you will see how avast beat other antivirusā¦ 
Didnāt realize it was your company ???
I know that Avast will most likely make a better showing in the next test but,
even if it doesnāt, those are results based on a controlled environment.
I use avast! in the real world and havenāt seen an infection in the past 8 years.
That to me is the real test. ;D
With all due respect to everyone here, I find this thread quite amusing.
If avast had received an Advanced+ rating, everyone would be saying this is one of the reasons they love it, and would be bragging all over the place about the results.
However, since it ended up near the bottom of the list instead, people question the findings, or say they donāt care, itās still the best. And Iām not talking just in this forum, but this sort of response is coming from avast lovers in many other forums as well.
I have no doubt avast will climb to the top again, but for now, it is what it is.
Happy holidays.
If avast had received an Advanced+ rating, everyone would be saying this is one of the reasons they love it, and would be bragging all over the place about the results.Better get your facts straight before you make such a blanket statement. :)
Merry Christmas!
Yes even i havent been infected in a span of 1year having avast!
If I mayā¦bob3160 is right. Like him I surf in the āreal worldā.
That is why I wait for the āReal World Whole Productā tests. A hiccup now and then is to be expected.
Please donāt blow things out of proportion.
I can hardly wait for 7.0!
Like many others here, Iām far less concerned about the results of test-comparisons (which, as already noted, are in many cases not exactly objective, and/or compare apples and oranges in the sense of some tested products being way out of date) than I am with avastās performance on MY system, which (for something like 14 years now) has been excellent.
And thereās one major plus for avast which I suspect the ātestsā donāt even consider, the support factor. I donāt think thereās a single competitor which can come even close to the support forums here.
My current system, now about 8 years old, came with NIS pre-installed, which was relatively easy to remove cleanly compared with NAV. I quickly switched to avast, which Iād had on previous systems, and have stuck with it ever since. And if that makes me a āfanboyā, so be it.
+1
1000% agree with you. Unbelievable support from highly qualified, computer savy folks. 8)
I must say that I am a little worried to read that my favorite antivirus program is not protecting me.
It is protecting u this is just a sudden down fall in avast results they will be back at their position keep faith in avast! ;D
Even though I myself use Ubuntu, as far as I am concerned, AV Comparatives apparently do not have the certification to validate their test results. avast! has been good and always will be. Do not be fooled by this one-time bad result into thinking avast! has failed you. Comodo has also scored bad, but theyāre demanding AV Comparativesā test results to be audited by a third party auditor, and theyāre willing to even pay for the cost. For some reason, AV Comparatives is refusing to have the results audited. I donāt know who is at fault here. Itās either avast! and Comodo both did poorly, or AV Comparatives has something shady going on behind the closed doors. Comodo is complaining that AV Comparatives get funded by the AV vendors and therefore, the test results may be skewed or tampered. I do not think an independent testing company should receive its fundings from the vendors itās testing the products of. I personally think it does sound fishy. If they really need the money, they could run advertisements on their web site or stick the ads into their report as they always do. Nonetheless, I trust avast!, and thatās why I installed it on my momās computer. Unlike Comodo, avast! is very user friendly which puts it ahead of the other guys. Do not be tempted to switch!!!
thanks! eko_mn for your confirmation i trsut avast and not going to switch it with another ITS MY BEST AV!
Why do you say that ???
You have AIS 6.0.1367 SAS Pro, MBAM Pro, Spyware Blaster 4.5 protecting you.
But a Antivus programm should protect u the whole year and a sometimes in the year or am i wrong ??? , if you make a antivirus then you should keep ure user protected the whole year and NOT put all the time in making the Mobile Security!
You have AIS 6.0.1367 SAS Pro, MBAM Pro, Spyware Blaster 4.5 protecting you. :)
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AIS Failed at hxxp://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php ,
scoring only ā15%/ 3 out of 10ā on Firewall Leak Tests (allows dataā¦ to sneak by/transmit).
a. PC-Tools IS āfirewallā scored well (9 of 10), but their anti-virus causes a Serious performance slowdown & low detection rate (cnet review). -
SAS failed all 4 of their tests at another site/Compromised.
Thank you for citing truly irrelevant testing. However, this is about AV comparatives results.
Well, I wonāt blame AV comparatives, since I have tested many AV, they have very accurate results by the way I had similar results to theirs, but yes, they are just tests, and tests canāt be accurate when we talk about day to day usage, world common use of the computer, but yes if you go to mdl, malc0de, scumware, malwareP, and you start testing zero day files, well you may get a different result than what you were expecting, where high heuristics will have advantage to signature based and etc. As I said, its all about usage, if you work at a very dangerous environment then you may need some very good behavior shield and very high heuristics system, at the cost of some fake alerts, and of course even so, you wonāt be safe at all ; ) in my case I use two different av who can work at the same time with no problem, but cmon, for real usage go for Avast! for real ; ) best best, trust me, I have tested many suites so I know what Iām talking about.