Retrospective Test

June 8th, 2010

The retrospective test of February/May 2010 has been released. You can find it on http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests

February 2010 Test Report

March 19th, 2010

The February 2010 comparative report has been released. Please read carefully the whole test report (incl. what changed and the appendix report about false alarms). You can find it on our website.

2010 Test-Series Participants

February 5th, 2010

We had this year more than 30 vendors interested in taking part in our tests. As usual, we limited the number of participants to the most interesting/known products which also perform relatively good. Anyway, due the high demand, we increased for this year the number of participants to about 20 instead of 16. The following vendors are on our tentative participation list for the 2010 test-series (other vendors may be tested separately during the year, but we are not allowed to disclose who they are):

Avast, AVG, AVIRA, BitDefender, eScan, ESET, F-Secure, G DATA, Kaspersky, Kingsoft, McAfee, Microsoft, Norman, Panda (NEW entry), PC Tools (NEW entry), Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro (NEW entry), Trustport and maybe one further NEW entry (currently under evaluation).

Follow us on Facebook!

January 21st, 2010

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CeBIT 2010

January 21st, 2010

We will be at the CeBIT 2010 in Hannover (Germany) from 2nd to 6th of March 2010
You can find us at the CeBIT Security Plaza, Hall 11.

If you want to meet us, please arrange a meeting. Just mail us.

AV-Comparatives on Youtube

January 21st, 2010

You can watch our video(s) here:

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Summary Report 2009

December 23rd, 2009

The AV-Comparatives Summary Report for 2009 has been released on our website.

The 3 best products of the year 2009, based on the tests done in 2009, are Symantec (Gold), Kaspersky (Silver) and ESET (Bronze). To see the winners of the various subcategories and further details, please read the report.

Performance comparative

December 22nd, 2009

We just released the performance comparative test report. You can find the report on our website.

Whole-Product Dynamic Test

December 18th, 2009

AV-Comparatives has released its first real-world dynamic test. You can find the report on our website.

Adware/Spyware/Rogue (PUA) detection test

December 3rd, 2009

The “Potentially Unwanted Applications” (PUA) detection test has been released. You can find it on our website.

Retrospective/Proactive Test

November 28th, 2009

The retrospective/proactive test of November (using product from August and samples appeared within one week after last updates, i.e. new malware) has been released. You can find it on our website.

Join the Tests!

November 7th, 2009

We invite all interested Anti-Virus software vendors, to apply for
inclusion in the main tests of 2010. Please write us and ask for the
conditions to participate. The number of participants is limited.

Malware Removal Test

October 23rd, 2009

Our first Malware Removal Test report has been released. Please read carefully the whole test report. You can find it on our website.

August 2009 test report released

September 19th, 2009

The August 2009 comparative report has been released. Please read carefully the whole test report. You can find it on our website.

Meetings @ Virusbulletin

September 16th, 2009

Hi,

Andreas will be at Virusbulletin all days. If you want to meet Peter he will be available for arranged meetings on the 24th of September. Just do an appointment per mail.

Thanks and have a good conference!

Contact form

June 8th, 2009

We had a problem with our contact form on the website, due which we could not get messages sent between the begin of May and the 7th June. If you tried to contact us in that period and have not received any reply from us, please resend your message using the new contact form (http://www.av-comparatives.org/contact ). Thanks!

AV-Comparatives Corporate Products Review

May 28th, 2009

We released a review of corporate security products on our website. Its a over 100 pages report – quite comprehensive and very useful for administrators and decision-makers. You can find it in the corporate reviews section.

Retrospective/Proactive Test

May 27th, 2009

The retrospective/proactive test of May (using product from February and samples appeared within one week after last updates, i.e. new malware) has been released. You can find it on our website.

SoftSphere DefenseWall (HIPS) review

May 27th, 2009

We just released a review of SoftSphere DEFENSEWALL (a HIPS product). The report is available in English and also in German language in the Single Product Reviews section of our website.

February 2009 test report released

March 22nd, 2009

The February 2009 comparative report has been released. Please read carefully the whole test report. You can find it on our website.