Consumer Anti-Malware Products: Group Test Report Q3 2010

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This public service report is provided free of charge to help consumers identify the most effective security software. Based on these latest test results, cybercriminals are becoming more effective. Consumers need protection and should pick one of the products that scored best in our testing. Some take-aways from this report:

Malware protection is far from commodity, with effectiveness ranging between 54% and 90%, a 36% spread
Cybercriminals have between a 10% - 45% chance of getting past your AV with Web Malware (depending on the product)
Cybercriminals have between 25% - 97% chance of compromising your machine using exploits (depending on the product)
Expect use of exploits to increase since it is far more effective than traditional malware

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What was tested:

This in-depth product test examines multiple threat types and vectors from end-to-end, replicating how real people access the internet, and includes:

Malware downloaded from web sites on the internet through social engineering tricks
Client-side exploits against applications such as Windows® Internet Explorer®, Mozilla® Firefox®, Apple® Quicktime®, and Adobe® Acrobat®.
Key performance metrics, such as increase in memory, CPU, boot time, and application load time.