by Jim Hillier for Daves Computer Tips
How to Know If Your Anti Virus Is Working
Our good friends at Dave’s Computer Tips point out a great (free) online service that puts your Anti -irus software through a serious of tests that help confirm that your protection is set up for maximum security.–PC Pitstop.
How would you like a simple way to check and see if your anti-virus program is up to scratch? Well, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) has recently launched a free online service which provides just such a facility. The AMTSO service includes 5 tools to help users verify that their anti-virus protection is working and/or configured properly.
Even though I am pretty sure the checks are primarily aimed at commercial anti-virus solutions and not really meant for freeware editions, I was keen to test them out on my long time favorite free anti-virus.
These excerpts are shared with permission from davescomputertips.com.
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MICROSOFT DEFFENDERT(FREE) BLOCKED ALL DOWNLOADS AND MY AVIRA PLUG FOR SAFE SITE JOINED IN ON TWO AND BLOCKED THE PHISSING SITE ALONE AND THAT WAS FREE TOO!
THANKS NORM
It appears that Avast has updated their definitions with these tests now. Avast Free passed all 5 tests. I also ran Malwarebytes Pro by itself which passed 1-3 but failed 4 and 5.
ESET Smart Security 5.
Nailed all 5!
Woo Hoo.
My AVG Internet Security 2013 trial 30 day stops all 5 tests.
avast pro antivirus blocked all 5 possible threats. Avast rules!!!!
Using Norton Security Suite, Tests 1,2,3, & 5 were blocked, but #4 (Phishing) failed. Possibly not configuired yet by Symantec. Will ck, with them.
My AVG free version grabbed them all right away. Thanks.
AVG blocked all of them. Thanks for the opportunity to feel very comfortable about being online.
Using Avast,the questionable download was the only one that failed (3). Have to tweak it to have it pass all five. Strangely enough Dave’s site said it failed the last three.
Zonelaarm Internet Security Suite blocked all but #3, Phishing.
Bitdefender Sphere blocked all of them! 🙂 I uninstalled AVAST , for it did not block and detect several Trojans.
Panda passed all tests!
None of them affected my Linux Mint 13, Mate 64 bit.
MSE blocked 1,2.
Chrome blocked 1,2,3,5,
MacAfee came back with Whoa this site is not safe to all five sites.
Norton did too.
My AVG-Pro 2013 blocked all 5 tests.