Monday, June 17, 2013

BitDefender Free Android antivirus test wins on all fronts - Personal Computer Magazine

In a recent test was 30 antivirus malware scanners for Android fire to the shin down. Remarkably, the clear winner of the free Android app Bitdefender. Both antivirus detection as the use and performance were tested.

Android is the mobile platform where the vast majority of malware occurs, so it makes sense to install. a virus The German AV-Test has a whopping thirty tested antivirus apps for Android. The study looked at protection, but also the usability and performance of the apps. A total of 2545 malicious apps released on the tested Android devices.

There appears to be between the antivirus apps for Android. quite a difference in quality So the worst scanner detected only 58 percent of the malware, where the best 100 percent stopped. Unjustified notifications of malware were hardly observed in the test and the effect on battery life and performance of Android devices was very low in general.

test AV-Test consisted of two main parts, namely the protection and usability. The tested antivirus apps could each scored six points in these areas. An additional point was to be achieved through additional security features such as encryption, safe surfing, anti-theft measures and parental controls.

BitDefender scored the maximum 13 points in the test. The app detected 100 percent of the malicious apps. Avast, Comodo, ESET, Kingsoft, MicroWorld, AhnLab, Antiy, Qihoo, Trend Micro and Symantec scored 99.6 percent in the area of ??protection. Before the apps were half a point deduction.

In the field of usability scored many apps up. BitDefender was still the only real winner. Below the distribution of points of the test.

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