Vendor: TotalAV
All reportsMarketing vs. Reality
This report focuses on how well popular security products protect home users against real threats. We ran each product through a series of tests designed to reflect the kinds of threats real users face every day.
These include widespread malware attacks and more sophisticated intrusions that do not rely on obvious warning signs. The way we test remains transparent, consistent and publicly documented. We explore anti-malware marketing vs. reality
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Some of the products offered strong protection with minimal disruption
In this report we included two products that frequently appear at the top of online recommendations for ‘best anti-virus’ and similar. We’ve never tested them before.
Choosing the right security software
Should be evidence-based and not driven by advertising. Independent testing helps cut through the marketing hype and offers a clearer view of which products truly provide effective protection. We explore anti-malware marketing vs. reality.
How we test
We tested a variety of anti-malware (aka ‘anti-virus’; aka ‘endpoint security’) products from a range of well-known vendors in an effort to judge which were the most effective. Each product was exposed to the same threats, which were a mixture of targeted attacks using well-established techniques and public email and web-based threats that were found to be live on the internet at the time of the test. The results indicate how effectively the products were at detecting and/or protecting against those threats in real-time.
Choose your reports and reviews carefully
We pride ourselves on a level of transparency that elevates our work above the less open reports available. Don’t just take our word for it. This report has gone through the AMTSO certification process to ensure that we say what we’re going to do; do it; and can prove it. Our results help vendors improve their products and buyers choose the best for their own needs.
How they sell security (and we buy it)
The world of cyber security sales is unclear at best
Our reports help you choose the best home anti-malware solution. This latest one looks at how the most popular products handle the threats everyone faces on a daily basis, as well as the sort of targeted attack you hope never to encounter (but might).
There aren’t many resources available to help make such buying decisions. Security marketing is fraught with misleading claims. That’s not just our opinion. “Snake oil” is a common refrain among attendees of security conferences and the large companies that buy security to the tune of over one trillion dollars a year.
Choose the best home anti-malware solution
SE Labs is particularly well connected in the security world. It’s partially how we have gained the trust of the security vendors themselves, and their own customers. We sit right in the middle of things, alongside the analysts who help businesses choose which vendors to work with. This is why your favourite reviewers use SE Labs lab data to help them with their anti-virus reviews and other security articles. Very few organisations get to see under the hood of personal security products. We’re here to help, and provide that insight.
We pride ourselves on a level of transparency that elevates our work above the less open reports available. But don’t just take our word for it. This report has gone through the AMTSO certification process to ensure that we say what we’re going to do; do it; and can prove it. Our results help vendors improve their products and buyers choose the best for their own needs.
Read this SE Labs assessment of world-leading endpoint security products and discover how they handle well-known threats and targeted attacks.
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