McAfee, AVG Drop in Latest AV-TEST Antivirus Evaluations

[Paul Wagenseil]

Two well-known antivirus brands see their protection scores drop, while Microsoft's built-in Windows Defender slips only a little.

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[3ogdy]

McWho? Haven't they replaced their screwed up name and products with some Intel stuff? I thought they finally transitioned to Intel Security or something like that.
Not at all surprised Bitdefender is number 1 though. Romanian and Russian security is well known in this industry. Usually, Top 3 security products are (in this order) : Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http/chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart2&year=2016&month=4&sort=0&zoom=2
I use Kaspersky now , Bitdefender was slowing my system down and received several blue screens.

 

[daglesj]

Just run a Standard user account and you then negate 90% of stuff straight away without the need for AV.

 

[Paul Wagenseil]

McWho? Haven't they replaced their screwed up name and products with some Intel stuff? I thought they finally transitioned to Intel Security or something like that.

The company is using Intel Security for the manufacturer, but keeping McAfee in the name of the product -- for now. John McAfee's own antics haven't helped keep the brand name alive, though.

 

[Paul Wagenseil]

Just run a Standard user account and you then negate 90% of stuff straight away without the need for AV.

Yeah, but the other 10 percent will use privilege escalation to get past the Standard account limitations.

 

[Paul Wagenseil]

http/chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart2&year=2016&month=4&sort=0&zoom=2
I use Kaspersky now , Bitdefender was slowing my system down and received several blue screens.

Kaspersky makes good stuff. It had some less-than-perfect scores in a recent AV-TEST round, but seems to have bounced back. We thought Kaspersky Total Security was the best of the premium AV products last year: http/www.tomsguide.com/us/kaspersky-total-security,review-2045.html

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I was using Bitdefender for a couple of years , but switched over to Kaspersky , seems lighter and more responsive than the last two incarnations , I also tested Trend Micro on one of my machines , was very impressed .

They are 1 and 2 most of the time.

Kaspersky tolerates MBAM Premium , much better than Bitdefender.