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Introduction

MRG Effitas is a world leader in independent IT research. Our core focus of antivirus efficacy assessment includes traditional “Real World” malware detection capabilities and financial fraud prevention.

The methodology employed in this test maps closely to Real World practice representing the valid threats endangering anyone using the Windows operating system. This evaluation aims to help users choose the most suitable enterprise security application for their needs.

This programme is called “360° Assessment & Certification” as it tests the capabilities of the participating security applications with a full spectrum of attack vectors. In-The-Wild Assessment, trojans, backdoors, spyware, financial malware, ransomware, and “other” malicious applications are all used. Alongside the traditional In-The-Wild (ITW) file-based attacks, our evaluation also contains scenarios where fileless cases and exploitation techniques, live botnets and financial malware simulators are applied.

In addition to malicious attacks, we also evaluate the practical accuracy of AV products, exposing them to potentially unwanted applications (PUA or Greyware) and clean files (FP) as well.

Our assessment also measures the footprint each security software has on a computer’s performance.
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