- #AVAST FREE ANTIVIRUS FOR MAC 2014 FULL#
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- #AVAST FREE ANTIVIRUS FOR MAC 2014 WINDOWS#
#AVAST FREE ANTIVIRUS FOR MAC 2014 FULL#
For full details on how I perform this test, see How We Test Malware Blocking.In this year’s comparison, commercial and free anti-virus software compete head-to-head. Quite a few products are tied for first place, 9.4 points, including AVG, Avira, and Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ 10.5. With 8.9 points overall for malware blocking, avast! is in the lower half of products tested with the same malware collection. That's decent, but AVG AntiVirus FREE 2014, Avira Free AntiVirus (2014), and Ashampoo Anti-Virus 2014 all managed 97 percent. Its overall detection rate was 92 percent. In one case, it launched the new special DeepScreen scan, then quarantined the file. I launched the remaining samples and noted the product's behavior. In the end, avast! whacked 78 percent of the samples. Avast! waits for a click, so I dutifully clicked up and down the list, noting which items got sent to quarantine.
#AVAST FREE ANTIVIRUS FOR MAC 2014 WINDOWS#
For many antivirus products, the minimal file access that occurs when Windows Explorer checks a file's attributes for display is enough to trigger an on-access scan. Since this is the first data point for this test, I can't say whether that's a good score or not time will tell.Ĭontinuing my malware-block testing, I opened a folder containing my current collection of malware samples.
#AVAST FREE ANTIVIRUS FOR MAC 2014 DOWNLOAD#
It quarantined another 10 percent at some point during the download process, for a total of 79 percent blocked. I keep trying URLs until I've accumulated a hundred or so, recording whether the antivirus blocked access to the URL, quarantined the download, or just did nothing.Īvast's Web Shield jumped in to block URL access for 69 percent of the samples. Each URL is no more than a day or so old, but even so by the time I use them in testing many are already defunct. Overall, Avast gets good marks from the labs.įor a full explanation of the way I interpret and aggregate tests results from the various independent testing labs, please see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.Īvast! Free Antivirus 2014 lab tests chartĭecent Malware Blocking Starting with this review, I've added a new malware blocking test using a feed of malicious URLs supplied by MRG-Effitas. AV-Comparatives rated it ADVANCED+, while AV-Test assigned it 3.0 of 6.0 possible points. In two performance tests, Avast's results differed quite a bit. However, as you'll see later, it generated some significant false positives in my own tests. Getting a good Usability score from AV-Test requires few or no false positives Avast earned 6.0 of 6.0 possible points. Avast didn't lose points for false positives in tests by AV-Comparatives or Dennis Labs.
AV-Test gave it 5.5 of 6.0 possible points for protection, and Dennis Technology Labs certified Avast at the AA level (AAA is the top rating).įalse positives, valid programs blocked as malicious, can be a real problem. AV-Comparatives rated it ADVANCED+, the top rating, in a dynamic test using the very latest malware. Protection against new malware attack is an essential antivirus feature, and Avast did well in several tests aimed at measuring protection. AV-Comparatives rated Avast ADVANCED for file detection it rated STANDARD in another test that specifically measured how well products cleaned up malware they detected. ICSA Labs and West Coast labs both certify Avast's technology for virus detection Avast didn't participate in the malware cleanup test by those labs. Good Ratings from the Labs Avast participated in all of the last 12 tests by Virus Bulletin and received VB100 certification in ten of those tests. Those eight have been rolled up into three easy-to-understand shields: File System Shield, Web Shield, and Mail Shield.
Previously users were confronted with status and configuration options for eight distinct shields. The 2014 edition also streamlines its collection of real time "shields" against malware. Best Malware Removal and Protection Software.
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