Home anti-virus products put to the test by AV-Comparatives – which received the highest score?

Home anti-virus products put to the test - which received the highest score?

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Anti-malware testing lab AV-Comparatives carries out intensive tests of security software, and has just published its report on the performance of home anti-virus products, including the results of all the individual tests it carried out in the last year, a review of 16 products’ user-interfaces, and the awards it gave to products in different categories.

Amongst those products included in the test are anti-virus programs from Avast, AVG, Avira, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, K7, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, NortonLifeLock, Panda, Tencent, Total Defense, Trend Micro, and VIPRE.

If you want to find out how different consumer anti-virus products performed in the tests, and whether yours won the prestigious Product of the Year Award – only given to solutions which demonstrate excellence in all categories – check out the report right now.

About AV-Comparatives
AV-Comparatives is based in Innsbruck, Austria, and has been performing rigorous independent tests of security software since 2004. These systematic tests help antivirus vendors to find any weaknesses in their programs, and so improve their protection and performance.


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