In order to recognise those products that achieve outstanding scores in our tests, we have given a number of end-of-year awards that highlight the best results in each test, and overall. For details, please see “Overview of levels reached during 2018” on page 6. Whilst all of the programs in our test reached an acceptable level overall, some programs outperformed others. All the programs were tested for their ability to protect against real-world Internet threats, identify thousands of recent malicious programs, provide protection without slowing down the PC, and remove malware that had already infected a PC.

In 2018, AV-Comparatives subjected 18 security products for Windows to rigorous investigation. The tested products of all the 18 vendors above are AV-Comparatives 2018 Approved Windows Security Products. We are happy that this year’s tests helped several vendors to find critical and other bugs in their software, and that this has contributed to improving the products. The following vendors’ products were included in AV-Comparatives’ Public Main Test-Series of 2018 and had the effectiveness of their products independently evaluated. Comments and conclusions are based on the results shown in the various comparative test reports, as well as from observations made during the tests ( ).

Please bear in mind that this report considers all the main-series tests of 2018, i.e.

We received the TÜV Austria certificate for our management system for the scope: “Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software”.ĪV-Comparatives is the first certified EICAR Trusted IT-Security Lab Īt the end of every year, AV-Comparatives releases a summary report to comment on the various anti-virus products tested over the year, and to highlight the high-scoring products of the various tests that took place over the course of the year. We were founded in 2004 and are based in Innsbruck, Austria.ĪV-Comparatives is an ISO 9001:2015 certified organisation. We are an independent test lab, providing rigorous testing of security software products.

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