Antivirus Test Results 2009

Regarding no longer participating in these kind of tests, I was thinking all the time they were too easy and predictable for the vendors, hence all these near 100% scores, which seem too good to be true. Yet AV-Comparatives and AV-Test results are quite reputable, hence you can have the sugarcoating and inflating effects of advertising backed by a neutral testers solid reputation. They are such an essential part of AV advertising that, if a product offers good protection and the funds are available to pay for the testing, it would be unreasonable not to participate. Unless the results would be bad, of course. Yes, some products (not only Webroot) are difficult to test to their full potential but without any 3rd party testing organization, then the only thing left is believe the vendor's promises alone, which also is not a strong point as every vendor pretty much promises the same. Yes, some will say - see our users and so on but this is not enough and here comes also the percentage of users compared to that of other AV vendors. It's normal that vendors with larger user base will have more reports of their solutions being compromised.

Performance Tests

Simply put, they don't get tested anymore due to getting bad results which they then claim 'you did not test our product correctly'. I get the fact that their product works differently, but for any good antivirus product regardless you would expect them to have even semi-decent file based detection/signatures for active malware. Download Spt Tahunan 1770 Ss Format Excel. If its really that bad why not just do what every other vendor is doing and rent Bitdefenders signatures and put them in the Webroot cloud then people will stop complaining and you will get good test results. Simply put, they don't get tested anymore due to getting bad results which they then claim 'you did not test our product correctly'. I get the fact that their product works differently, but for any good antivirus product regardless you would expect them to have even semi-decent file based detection/signatures for active malware. If its really that bad why not just do what every other vendor is doing and rent Bitdefenders signatures and put them in the Webroot cloud then people will stop complaining and you will get good test results.