Recent Tests
360° Assessment & Certification – Q1 2022
- 9 Security Applications tested
- 360 In-The-Wild malware samples used
- Real World scenario with no user-initiated threat neutralisation
- PUA/Adware test
- False Positive test
- Exploit/Fileless attacks
- Real Botnet test
- Financial Simulator attack
- Ransomware Simulator attacks
- False Positive Ransomware test
- Performance assessments
- Operating System: Windows 10 x64 20H2
- Browser: Chrome 100.0.4896.60
Android Efficacy Assessment – Q1 2022
- 9 AV engines tested
- 158 in-the-wild samples
- 5 simulators
- One real-life scenario, based on our revised methodology
- Operating System: Android 8.1
360° Assessment & Certification – Q4 2021
- 9 Security Applications tested
- 360 In-The-Wild malware samples used
- Real World scenario with no user-initiated threat neutralisation
- PUA/Adware test
- False Positive test
- Exploit/Fileless attacks
- Real Botnet test
- Financial Simulator attack
- Ransomware Simulator attacks
- False Positive Ransomware test
- Performance assessments
- Operating System: Windows 10 x64 20H2
- Browser: Chrome 97.0
Android Efficacy Assessment – Q4 2021
- 9 AV engines tested
- 152 in-the-wild samples
- 5 simulators
- one real-life scenario, based on our revised methodology
- Operating System: Android 8.0
Case Study: Webroot
Webroot has worked with MRG Effitas over the past several years due to their unique capacity to test efficacy functionality that goes beyond simply blocking a threat. While Effitas does understand that prevention is important, they were the first to introduce testing that looked at detection of specific malicious behaviors by using malware simulation tools to replicate what behaviors were being encountered in the wild.
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A New Age of Android Antivirus Testing
The team at MRG Effitas has been undertaking Android antivirus testing for many years. When we first started putting Android AVs to the test, we faced a lot of challenges. …
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