Avast's Windows 7 widespread-malware scores were better, at 99.9 percent in July and 99.8 percent in August. On Windows 8.1, Avast stopped 100 percent of zero-day malware in both rounds, while catching 99.8 percent of widespread malware in November and 99.7 percent in December.Īvast got its worst score on Windows 7, catching 97.5 percent of zero-day malware in August but 100 percent in July. It detected 99.9 percent of widespread malware in September 2016 and 99.8 percent in October. On Windows 10, Avast blocked all the zero-day malware in one round, but fell below that otherwise, stopping 98.8 percent of zero-day attacks in the previous round. It dipped below perfection in only one round of Windows 8.1 tests, catching 98.7 percent of zero-day malware and 99.9 percent of widespread malware in December 2016.
IANTIVIRUS VS AVAST FOR WINDOWS 10
But as both use the same malware-detection engine, they would have earned the same scores.)īitdefender stopped 100 percent of both kinds of malware for Windows 10 and Windows 7.
(Note: Both labs’ tests were conducted using Bitdefender Internet Security instead of Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. In both fields, Bitdefender excelled by small margins. Bitdefender's scans earn high marks for practically perfect malware-detection rates.Ī similar pattern showed up in evaluations done during the same period by the German lab AV-TEST, which measured how well Bitdefender and Avast performed at detecting both known widespread malware and unknown “zero-day” malware.
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