All postsYou can probably guess the answer, but we’ll explore how products can score very well in tough tests, and which are the best.
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There are a lot of threats on the web, and going online without protection is very risky. We need good, consistently effective anti-malware products to reduce our risk of infection.
And the ones included in these reports look great – in fact, some score 100 per cent. That means they stopped all the threats that we exposed them to and didn’t block anything legitimate.
But wait a minute! Those in the security industry know full well that there is no such thing as 100 per cent security. There is always a way past every security measure, and this is as true in the anti-malware world as with any other measures for threat protection.
Score 100 per cent?
This test includes some of the very best anti-malware products in the world, and pits them against prevalent threats, be they ones that affect hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, or those that could be used to target individuals and organisations. It’s a tough test, but a fair one.
You could argue that any anti-malware product worth its salt would score 100 per cent or thereabouts.
Products can score 100 per cent in our tests because we’re not choosing thousands of weird and wonderful rare pieces of malware to test. Regular users are extremely unlikely to encounter those in the real world.
We’re looking at the threats that could affect you.
Our mission is to help improve computer security through testing, both publicly and privately. We also want to help customers choose the best products by publishing some of those test results.
But don’t forget that success today is not a guarantee of success tomorrow. It’s important to keep monitoring test results.
