AV-Comparatives - Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software

Latest Reports

Performance Test Security-Suites August 2010 ( now English and Chinese)

Retrospective/Proactive Comparative May 2010
(now English and Chinese)

Polls

How important is it for you to have a release year in the name of your security software product?

	very important
	important
	not important
	I do not know

Summary Reports

Title	Date	Report	AV Product of the Year
Summary Report 2009	December 2009	Report (PDF-en) Report (PDF-cn)	Symantec
Summary Report 2008	December 2008	Report (PDF)	AVIRA
Summary Report 2007	December 2007	Report (PDF)	ESET NOD32
Summary Report 2006	December 2006	Report (PDF)	ESET NOD32
not available	December 2005	not available	Kaspersky
not available	December 2004	not available	Kaspersky

Awards-Overview

Those below tables show the levels reached by the various products in our main Anti-Virus comparatives. The levels are set for each test by the tester. Products that got the "standard"-level can be understood as products that based on our tests have a good detection rate, "advanced" a very good detection rate and "advanced+" an excellent detection rate without many false alarms. Such a classification was also set to the retrospective tests. For more information please read the test reports and the document with the FAQ's. Please note the different columns 'on-demand' and 'retrospective test'. The award "Product of the Year" is given based not only on the four tests below; also other tests which are part of the main tests (e.g. malware removal test, dynamic test, PUP test, etc.) are considered.

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YEAR 2010