The RAP scores give a good indication as to how quickly a product catches up when it comes to detecting new malware statically. The Virus Bulletin testing is measuring the detection rate, the false positive rate and is making also the ‘Reactive and Proactive’ (‘RAP’) test – a test which measures how quickly products detect new malware. TotalAV comes with the combination of features mostly required by home users, just as mentioned above. And indeed, it entered the Virus Bulletin regular testing in April this year and successfully earned its first VB100%. is according to Virus Bulletin’s editor Martijn Grooten, “a relatively new UK-based product whose developers are working hard to make a name for themselves in the crowded market for home-user endpoint security“. So, a good antimalware product has to offer a good balance between protection and performance. However, this comes always with the cost of reducing the computer’s performance. Why? In general, the more features a product has, the better the protection it offers is.

In my opinion, the most important asset of an antimalware product is the combination of the two Ps: Protection-Performance. For a small company, we need to think more at things like email filtering (spam and phishing), targeted attacks, backup, disaster recovery, remote management and so on. These security needs are at the end dependent on the attack vectors against each individual.įor example, if we try to protect a standard home user or a micro-small company, we need to think of On Access (including ransomware detection) and On Demand scanning, web filtering, ad filtering and a certain degree of privacy protection. It is always about the security needs of the person or company who asks the question. The answer I give is never “Product X” because there is no such thing as “the best” when it comes to antimalware products. “What is the best antivirus product on the market?” I am being asked very often by friends and even people who I met for the first time.

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