Just because the product reports, "Hey, I nabbed a virus!" doesn’t mean it was successful. Would you trust a car review from a writer who never even took a test drive? Nope. Clearly, hands-on testing is a must.Įven if the labs reported on all the products that we cover, we'd still do hands-on antivirus testing. Almost a quarter of them have results from just one lab, and over 30% don’t participate in testing at all. Unfortunately, only about one in ten of the companies we test participates with all four labs, and another one in seven with three labs. If all four of the labs we follow bestow their highest rating on a product, it's sure to be an excellent choice. When lab results are available for a product, we give those scores serious weight in that product's review. Not every security company chooses to participate, so failing a feature check doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem.Īntivirus testing labs around the world put security tools through grueling tests, reporting results periodically. Participating antivirus companies simply agree to detect AMTSO's simulated attacks. However, there's no actual malware involved. The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) offers a collection of feature-check pages, so you can make sure your antivirus is working to eliminate malware, block drive-by downloads, prevent phishing attacks, and so on. That means we have to dive into the dark web and haul up samples for testing.
The only way to confirm that an antivirus program works is to challenge it with real-world ransomware, viruses, and other malware. Testing antivirus software is another story.
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