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    AV-Comparatives: Real World Protection Test - May 2016

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Jun 15, 2016.

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    People need to look at these over a year period... Vipre?! Give me a break.
     
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    Vipre is now a rebadged Bitdefender, they use their engine

    See: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/thre...protection-test-may-2016.386545/#post-2595130

    To see the results over a time period, click on the PROGRESS button on the top right
     
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    Yeah looking at it, I'm keeping Avast. Kaspersky is the only one that has consistently won advanced+ rewards while avast has been between advanced and advanced+ consistently other than one slip in 2012.
     
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    To me, the number one factor when choosing an AV is the performance impact which Avast, Avira, Kaspersky, and recently even NOD32 are good atl. Then comes protection.

    Reason being, I don't even need an AV, I just have it to feel safer, I know what I am doing and what I visit so if a particular AV like Avast! or any other slips a bit by a small percentage, I am not worried as I have faith what was missed will be corrected soon via program / definition updates.

    AV-Comparatives Performance Test
     
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    Avast has only had one performance dip which makes it the most consistent performer as well.
     
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