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Real-World Protection Test Enterprise March-April 2020 – Testresult

Date April 2020
Language English
Last Revision May 12th 2020

Release date 2020-05-13
Revision date 2020-05-12
Test Period March - April 2020
Number of Testcases 403
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Platform/OS Microsoft Windows
Methodology Click here

This report is an excerpt of the Business Security Test March-April 2020 – Factsheet. For more details, please click here.

Introduction

This is just an excerpt of the Business Security Test March-April 2020 – Factsheet and gives a brief overview of the results of the Business Real-World Protection Test run in March and April 2020. The overall business product reports (each covering four months) will be released in July and December. For more information about this Real-World Protection Test, please read the details available at http://www.av-comparatives.org. The results are based on a test set consisting of 403 test cases (such as malicious URLs), tested from the beginning of March till the end of April.

The full report will be released in July.

Tested Products

Test Results

  Blocked User dependent Compromised PROTECTION RATE
[Blocked % + (User dependent %)/2]*
False Alarms
Fortinet 403 100% 3
Panda 403 100% 10
Kasperksy 402 1 99.8% 0
Vipre, VMware 402 1 99.8% 1
Avast 402 1 99.8% 4
Elastic 402 1 99.8% 13
ESET 401 2 99.5% 0
Bitdefender 401 2 99.5% 1
Sophos 401 2 99.5% 2
Microsoft 401 2 99.5% 5
K7 401 2 99.5% 9
Cisco, G Data 400 3 99.3% 1
SparkCognition 397 6 98.5% 0
Acronis 392 11 97.3% 0
Cybereason 391 12 97.0% 6
CrowdStrike 391 12 97.0% 8
FireEye
385 18 95.5% 0

* User-dependent cases are given half credit. For example, if a program blocks 80% by itself, and another 20% of cases are user-dependent, we give half credit for the 20%, i.e. 10%, so it gets 90% altogether.

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(May 2020)