Neowin News Feed for: Av-comparatives

A new Windows malware hunter was tested by AV-TEST and it was quite terrible

Sayan Sen — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:00:10 +0000

Microsoft Defender, among several other popular AV products, can hog your system under certain situations, though they, including Defender, do a good job as a malware hunter, most of the time. Read more...

AV-Comparatives, AV-TEST show how Defender, McAfee, Norton, AVG hog your Windows 11, 10 PCs

Sayan Sen — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:00:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender is found to be one of the worst performers in AV-Comparatives test suite which measured performance impact by anti-malware apps. AV-TEST also found similar results. Read more...

Microsoft Defender, Kaspersky, McAfee get worse while Avast, AVG shine in Windows web test

Sayan Sen — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:34:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender did really well in a Windows web malware test last time. This time around though, its performance was not the best. Other solutions like Kaspersky performed even worse. Read more...

AV-Comparatives: Microsoft Defender improves offline virus detection on Windows by a lot

Sayan Sen — Mon, 15 May 2023 16:32:01 +0000

AV-Comparatives recently released its Real-World Protection test for web threats where Microsoft Defender did quite well. In the following Malware Protection test too, Defender has shown improvement. Read more...

AV-Comparatives: Microsoft Defender, Kaspersky, Bitdefender some of the best for web threats

Sayan Sen — Sun, 14 May 2023 08:54:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender recently did quite poorly in AV-TEST's performance impact test. However, the product was one of the best in AV-Comparatives' web protection test alongside the likes of Kaspersky. Read more...

Microsoft finally gets one past as Defender does great in AV-Comparatives' protection test

Sayan Sen — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:20:01 +0000

After very poor showings in terms of system performance impact in AV-TEST's and AV-Comparatives' reports, Microsoft Defender does really well in the latter's malware protection ranking. Read more...

It's last place again for Microsoft Defender, this time in AV-Comparatives' Windows 10 test

Sayan Sen — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:02:01 +0000

AV-Comparatives recently released its Performance test for the month of October 2022. In the evaluation, Microsoft Defender was found to be the worst offender with the highest performance impact. Read more...

AV-Comparatives finds Windows Defender suffering from poor offline detection, false alarms

Sayan Sen — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:48:02 +0000

AV-Comparatives has released its latest September 2022 antivirus assessment, which shows that Microsoft Defender has once again done poorly in false positive detection despite improving overall. Read more...

Microsoft pats itself on the back as it thanks AV-Comparatives for helping improve Defender

Sayan Sen — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 06:40:01 +0000

Microsoft's Defender did really well in a recent LSASS credential dumping test by AV-Comparatives. The Redmond company is somewhat delighted with the results and shared some more details about it. Read more...

Microsoft Defender gets outperformed easily by rivals Avast, AVG, and Avira in latest test

Sayan Sen — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:02:01 +0000

AV-Comparatives has released its latest July-August 2022 anti-virus program assessment report which shows Microsoft Defender has been worse off this time compared to the previous tests. Read more...

Microsoft Defender scores full marks in Windows 11 LSASS credential dump protection test

Sayan Sen — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:32:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has done quite well in a new LSASS credentials dumping protection test recently conducted by AV-Comparatives. In the test, Defender has scored the full marks. Read more...

Microsoft Defender fails to improve in the latest AV-Comparatives ranking

Sayan Sen — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:16:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender continues its relatively poor run in the AV-Comparatives anti-malware protection assessment per the latest May rankings. There was one category though where it did really well. Read more...

AV-Comparatives' latest test finds Microsoft Defender hogs your system real bad

Sayan Sen — Tue, 03 May 2022 11:28:01 +0000

In the latest performance impact test from AV-Comparatives, Microsoft's Defender has been one of worst performers of all, barely coming in second-last among 17 anti-malware products. Read more...

AV-Comparatives finds Microsoft Defender has one of the poorest offline detection rates

Sayan Sen — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 09:38:02 +0000

AV-Comparatives has released its latest March 2022 anti-virus program assessment report which shows that Microsoft Defender has really poor offline detection rate. Aside from that, it has done well. Read more...

Unlike AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives wasn't as impressed by Microsoft Defender in 2021

Sayan Sen — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:20:01 +0000

Microsoft Defender scored highly in some of the latest AV-TEST rankings, the latest one being from December. However, it hasn't quite done as well in AV-Comparatives' testing though. Read more...