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The AV-TEST Institute recently tested the most popular Windows 10 client antivirus products on three primary criteria: protection, performance, and usability. Eight of the 19 products tested earned a perfect rating of 6 for each of those criteria:
* Bitdefender Endpoint Security
* F-Secure PSB Computer Protection
* Kaspersky Lab Endpoint Security
* Kaspersky Lab Small Business Security
* McAfee Small Business Security
* Symantec Endpoint Protection
* Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud
* Trend Micro OfficeScan
The top 14 antivirus offerings shown here in alphabetical order scored at least 17.5 points out of a possible 18. You can drill down on the full results at The AV-TEST Institute's website.
How to use these antivirus test results
Keep in mind that these tests were done in a lab environment. Different enterprise systems with different threat models will see different results for each of the products listed below. In other words, don’t expect that a 100% detection rate in the lab means that a product will detect all antivirus threats on your network. One reason is that it can take days for a newly submitted malware sample to make it into any given antivirus product’s database.
What the AV-TEST results show is which Windows antivirus products are consistently the best at the fundamentals of malware detection and have minimal impact on system performance. That makes a good starting point as you evaluate which products work best for your environment.
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