Over the last few weeks, why has Avast's zero day protection fallen so much?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Avast used to consistently be in top 3 (over a year period it is still #1), with a zero-day prevention rate of about 80-95% every day on this site that does a running daily test of zero-day protection of pretty much all the antivirus programs:

http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusDailyStats

But over the last few weeks it has fallen to the 30-50% range in protection and toward bottom of the long list of programs tested.

You can see weekly, monthly, 90, 180 days, 1 year results and see the slide.

Anyone know what was changed in Avast over the last few weeks?

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Lol…And you honestly believe some bogus site such as what you link to? Why don’t you check out a real legit site such as AV Comparatives, VB 100 and AV-Test.org. Come back to me after you check those real sites out.

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As I wrote, Avast had been top on that site for a while. Those other tests are good, but the one I cited does a daily test, while the other are quarterly at best. I use Avast - I am not knocking it. I just want to know if something recently changed.

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http://westcoastlabs.com/realTimeTesting/article/?articleID=1

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That is 2011 data, per that page.