Symantec vs AV-Comparatives, Which one do you trust?

Cross-posted from PCMag SecurityWatch: Last week independent antivirus lab AV-Comparatives released the results of an on-demand antivirus detection test. The fact that Microsoft came in near the bottom wasn’t big news; the fact that Symantec scored even lower was surprising indeed. In a blog post released today, Symantec decried the entire practice of performing on-demand malware scanning tests, calling it “misleading.” In the early years of antivirus testing, every test was an on-demand scanning test....

April 25, 2013 · 5 min · 1044 words