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Introduction

MRG Effitas is a world leader independent IT research company having a core focus on AV efficacy assessments both inthe traditional “Real World” malware detection capabilities and inthe financial fraud prevention area.

The methodology employed in this test maps closely to Real World practicerepresenting the valid threads endangering anyone using Windows operating system. This evaluation is aimed to help users choosing the most suitable security application.

This Programme is called “360 Assessment&Certification” since it teststhesecurity applicationscapabilities with afull spectrum ofattack vectors. In the 360 Assessment, trojans, backdoors, spyware, financial malware, ransomwareand “other” malicious applicationsareallused. Alongsidethe traditional In-The-Wild (ITW) file-basedattacks,our evaluation also containsscenarios where filelesscases and exploitation techniques,live botnets and financial malware simulatorsare also applied.

Besides the maliciousattacks, in order to evaluate the practical accuracy of AV products, they were exposed to potentially unwanted applications (PUAor Greyware)and clean files(FP)as well.

Additionally, besides security capabilitiestests, our assessment measured the footprint each security software on acomputer’s performance.