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How Do You Know If An Anti-Virus Test Is Any Good?
NOTE: This is not meant to be a discussion about which anti-virus product is the best. It is meant to explore how testing organizations reach their conclusions.
One of the recurring questions people ask is, "Which anti-virus/anti-malware product is best?" When trying to answer that question, others usually cite the latest test results from one of several different testing organizations.
Perhaps the better question should be, "What makes one test better than another, or are they all equally brilliant/useless/biased/random?"
John Hawes (Technical Consultant and Test Team Director at Virus Bulletin) has been running independent anti-malware testing there since 2006. He prepared this article for Sophos and attempts to provide a basic understanding of how anti-virus testing is conducted.
How do you know if an anti-virus test is any good? | Naked Security