Emsisoft detects 100% in March edition of AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection test

Antivirus testing organization AV-Comparatives published the first real-world protection test in its 2015 test series: March 2015. The detailed overall result reports (covering four months each) are released in July and December.

Emsisoft Anti-Malware prevents 100% of infections

For this test, AV-Comparatives used a test set of 410 live test cases (malicious URLs found in the field) consisting of working exploits (i.e. drive-by downloads) and URLs pointing directly to malware. In other words, mimicking the threats a typical user would experience in everyday life.

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The graph above shows the test results against the “out-of-box” malware protection provided by Microsoft Windows, which in this case is Microsoft Security Essentials since AV-Comparatives ran this test under Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit SP1.

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Emsisoft detected all threats, and thereby received a 100% detection rate. In 0.7% of the cases Emsisoft Anti-Malware displayed an alert which recommends the user to block the threat instead of automatic removal, which is why AV-C counts these as “user dependent”. See the full fact sheet here.

Senan Conrad

Senan Conrad

Senan specializes in giving readers insight into the constantly and rapidly changing world of cybersecurity. When he’s not tapping away at his keyboard, he enjoys drinking a good coffee or tinkering in his workshop.

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