Damjan 3 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 (edited) Why does ESET have such a poor perception (compared to the competition): Real-World Protection Test July-August 2023 - Factsheet - AV-Comparatives It is commendable that it has zero false positives. It just has a high throughput of malware (1.2%). ESET Internet Security was used. Would the result be better when using ESET Smart Security Premium (which uses ESET LiveGuard). Edited September 15 by Damjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,595 Posted September 15 Share Posted September 15 Below is Eset's historical performance scores on the AV-Comparatives real-time test series. It can be observed that Eset's scores on this test are fairly consistent over the years. One miss factor I am aware of is PUA's since Eset runs with default installation settings on this test and that protection is not enabled by default upon installation; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyQ 45 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 11 hours ago, itman said: Below is Eset's historical performance scores on the AV-Comparatives real-time test series. It can be observed that Eset's scores on this test are fairly consistent over the years. One miss factor I am aware of is PUA's since Eset runs with default installation settings on this test and that protection is not enabled by default upon installation; IMO, as a professional and well-known testing organization, AV-Comparative won’t take PUA as Malware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itman 1,595 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 (edited) 15 hours ago, AnthonyQ said: IMO, as a professional and well-known testing organization, AV-Comparative won’t take PUA as Malware. Correct I mis-posted; Quote We test all consumer products with their default settings, since surveys reveal that most home users keep their security programs at advised (default) settings. There is one exception to this rule, namely that we enable detection of potentially unwanted applications (PUA) if available. However, we do not test for PUAs, and use our own checks and analysis of samples to ensure that no verified PUA samples are counted in our test scores. https://www.av-comparatives.org/faq/ A long discussion of this topic in this thread: https://forum.eset.com/topic/12569-question-about-avc-real-world-test/ I do know AV-C tests always contain a few samples Eset misses. Also, Eset results are better on other AV lab tests: https://selabs.uk/reports/endpoint-security-eps-small-business-2023-q2/ https://www.mrg-effitas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MRG_Effitas_360_Q2_2023.pdf https://avlab.pl/en/recent-results/ Bottom line - you can't fully evaluate an AV product effectiveness based on one AV lab test. Edited September 16 by itman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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