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Anti-Virus Comparative
Summary Report 2014 Awards, winners, comments
Language: English
December 2014
Last Revision: 20th January 2015
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Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Participating Vendors 3
Management Summary 4
Product Thumbnails 5
Overview of levels reached during 2014 7
Winners 8
Overall winner of 2014 (Product of the Year) 9
Top Rated Products 2014 10
Whole-Product Dynamic Real-World Protection winners 11
File Detection winners 12
False Positives winners 13
Overall Performance (Low System-Impact) winners 14
Proactive (Heuristic/Behavioural) Protection winners 15
Malware Removal winners 16
User-Interface Review Section 17
AhnLab V3 Internet Security 8.0 19
Avast Free Antivirus 2015 24
AVG Internet Security 2015 30
Avira Antivirus Pro 14.0 37
Baidu Antivirus 2015 International/English Version 42
Bitdefender Internet Security 2015 47
BullGuard Internet Security 15.0 54
Emsisoft Anti-Malware 9.0 60
eScan Internet Security Suite with Cloud Security 14.0 66
ESET Smart Security 8.0 72
Fortinet FortiClient 5.2 with FortiGate 78
F-Secure Internet Security 2015 83
Kaspersky Internet Security 2015 89
Kingsoft Internet Security 2013.SP9.5 95
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ 11.4 102
McAfee Internet Security 2015 107
Microsoft Windows Defender 4.5 for Windows 8 115
Panda Free Antivirus 15.0 119
Qihoo 360 Internet Security 4.9 124
Sophos Endpoint Security and Control 10.3 129
Tencent PC Manager 10.3 133
ThreatTrack VIPRE Internet Security 2015 139
Trend Micro Internet Security 2015 145
Copyright and Disclaimer 151
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Introduction
At the end of every year, AV-Comparatives releases a summary
report to comment on the various
anti-virus products tested over the year, and to highlight the
high-scoring products of the various
tests. Please bear in mind that this report looks at all the
comparative tests of 2014, i.e. not only
the latest ones. Comments and conclusions are based on the
results shown in the various
comparative test reports of AV-Comparatives, as well as from
observations made during the tests
(http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparatives-reviews/).
Participating Vendors
The following vendors participated in AV-Comparatives public
main test-series of 2014 and agreed
to have the effectiveness of their products independently
evaluated. Microsoft asked to be included
in the tests, but to be regarded as a baseline and not as
competition to the other products.
We are happy that this years tests have helped several vendors
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