Methodologies

This tests aims to find out how effective the participating security products are at protecting the computer against active real-world malware threats while using the Internet. Any of the protection components in each product can be used to block the malware. The goal is to find out whether the security software protects the computer by hindering the malware to do any system changes (or remediate all changes), the question of how being of secondary importance.

The test aims to compare how much the tested security-products slow down everyday tasks, such as launching applications, while protecting the system.

The test is intended to demonstrate how effective the participating browser/security products are at recognising and blocking phishing websites, and thus protecting the user from being defrauded by these sites.

This test aims to determine how effectively and easily different antivirus products remove malware that has already infected a system.