{"id":547,"date":"2014-10-02T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2014-12-11T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:44:39","slug":"rankings-of-antivirus-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2014\/10\/02\/rankings-of-antivirus-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Rankings of antivirus software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC World&#8217;s September 30, 2014, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2689232\/free-is-good-no-cost-panda-software-tops-av-tests-rankings-of-antivirus-software.html\" title=\"PC World article\" target=\"_blank\">Free is good: No-cost Panda Software tops AV-Test&#8217;s rankings of antivirus software<\/a>&#8221; article summarized rankings for antivirus software by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.av-test.org\" title=\"The AV-TEST Institute is a leading international and independent service provider in the fields of IT security and anti-virus research.\" target=\"_blank\">AV-test.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\" title=\"AV-Comparatives is an independent not-for-profit organization.\" target=\"_blank\">AV-comparatives.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Antivirus suites are only as good as their latest tests. And in AV-test.org\u2019s latest roundup for July and August, the usual suspects\u2014BitDefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Symantec\u2014came out on top.<\/p>\n<p>There are two major [independent] test houses that periodically evaluate major antivirus suites and Internet security services: AV-test and AV-comparatives.org. AV-comparatives.org, which recently published its own August rankings, also treats Microsoft as the baseline, claiming that it caught only 85.5 percent of the antimalware samples it was tested against.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using Windows Defender (or Microsoft Security Essentials in Windows 7) or considering whether to renew your subscription for the computer security program that came with your PC, then you might want to read this article.<\/p>\n<p>Also note AV-test.org&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/test-procedures\/award\/2014\/\" title=\"AV Test news\" target=\"_blank\">Repair Award for 2014<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a rigorous 10-month test, AV-TEST found out which antivirus application and which clean-up tool are most capable of cleaning up and repairing Windows systems after a malware attack. The REPAIR AWARD 2014 goes to <strong>Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free<\/strong> and to the <strong>Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool<\/strong>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World&#8217;s September 30, 2014, &#8220;Free is good: No-cost Panda Software tops AV-Test&#8217;s rankings of antivirus software&#8221; article summarized rankings for antivirus software by AV-test.org and AV-comparatives.org. Antivirus suites are only as good as their latest tests. And in AV-test.org\u2019s latest roundup for July and August, the usual suspects\u2014BitDefender, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Symantec\u2014came out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,21],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-malware","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}