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Malware Protection Test Enterprise August 2018 – Testresult

Date September 2018
Language English
Last Revision October 11th 2018

Release date 2018-10-15
Revision date 2018-10-11
Test Period September 2018
Number of Testcases 1556
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False Alarm Test included checkbox-checked
Platform/OS Microsoft Windows

This report is an excerpt of the Business Security Test 2018 (August – November). For more details, please click here.

Introduction

The Malware Protection Test assesses a security program’s ability to protect a system against infection by malicious files before, during or after execution. The methodology used for each product tested is as follows. Prior to execution, all the test samples are subjected to on-access scans (if this feature is available) by the security program (e.g. while copying the files over the network or from a USB device, or saving from webmail). Any samples that have not been detected by the on-access scanner are then executed on the test system, with Internet/cloud access available, to allow e.g. behavioural detection features to come into play. If a product does not prevent or reverse all the changes made by a particular malware sample within a given time period, that test case is considered to be a miss. For this test, 1,556 recent malware samples were used.

Tested Products

Test Results

The following chart shows the results of the Business Malware Protection Test:

False positive (false alarm) test with common business software

A false alarm test done with common business software was also performed. As expected, all the tested products had zero false alarms on common business software.

  Malware Protection Rate False Alarms on common business software
Avast, Bitdefender, Emsisoft, McAfee, Trend Micro, Vipre 100% 0
CrowdStrike, Eset, Microsoft, Panda 99.9% 0
Kaspersky Lab 99.8% 0
FireEye 99.7% 0
eScan 99.6% 0
Fortinet 99.5% 0
Endgame 98.8% 0
Saint Security 94.0% 0

In order to better evaluate the products’ detection accuracy and file detection capabilities (ability to distinguish good files from malicious files), we also performed a false alarm test on non-business software and uncommon files. This is provided mainly just as additional information, especially for organisations which often use uncommon non-business software or their own self-developed software. The results do not affect the overall test score or the Approved Business Product award. The false alarms found were promptly fixed by the respective vendors.

FP rate
Number of FPs on
non-business software
Very low
0 - 10
Low
11 - 50
High
51 - 100
Very high
101 - 500
Remarkably high
> 500
  FP rate on non-business software
Avast, Bitdefender, Emsisoft, Endgame, ESET, FireEye, Fortinet, Kaspersky Lab, Saint Security Very low
CrowdStrike, eScan, McAfee, Microsoft, Panda, Trend Micro, VIPRE Low
High
Very high
Remarkably high

 

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