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

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:42:01 +0000

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. Researchers would assemble a collection of known malware, run a full scan, and record the percentage of samples detected. Modern labs work hard to devise tests that more closely reflect a user’s real-world experience, taking into account the fact that the vast majority of infections enter the computer from the Internet. Symantec contends that only the real-world sort of test is valid; I don’t entirely agree.

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Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:09:00 +0000

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

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