{"id":21138,"date":"2023-02-01T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/news-14871\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T16:10:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T00:10:56","slug":"news-14871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/news-14871\/","title":{"rendered":"Malwarebytes earns AV-TEST Top Product awards for fifth consecutive quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AV-TEST, a leading independent tester of cybersecurity solutions, has just ranked Malwarebytes as a <strong>Top Product for consumers and businesses<\/strong> for the fifth quarter in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Every two months, experts at AV-Test evaluate Windows antivirus software across three categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protection<\/strong> against malware infections such as viruses, worms or Trojan horses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance<\/strong> or the average influence of the product on computer speed in daily usage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Usability<\/strong> or the Impact of the security software on the usability of the whole computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All products can achieve a maximum of 6 points each in of the three categories, making 18 points the best possible test result. At 17.5 points or higher, AV-TEST issues the &#8220;<strong>Top Product<\/strong>&#8221; award.<\/p>\n<p>Each security product gets tested against 23,000 unique malware attacks, such as zero-day threats and widespread malware and must pass multiple false positives tests that include over 1 million clean files and websites.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest Nov-Dec\/2022 results, Malwarebytes received Top Product awards for both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/premium\">Malwarebytes Premium<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/business\/endpoint-protection\">Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection<\/a>. <strong>These results mark the fifth consecutive quarter we have received Top Product awards for both products,<\/strong> stretching back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/antivirus\/business-users\/\">December 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full Malwarebytes Premium results:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/antivirus\/home-windows\/windows-10\/december-2022\/malwarebytes-premium-4.5-221612\/\">https:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/antivirus\/home-windows\/windows-10\/december-2022\/malwarebytes-premium-4.5-221612\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Full Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection results:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/antivirus\/business-windows-client\/windows-10\/december-2022\/malwarebytes-endpoint-protection-1.2-222615\/\">https:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/antivirus\/business-windows-client\/windows-10\/december-2022\/malwarebytes-endpoint-protection-1.2-222615\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s take a deeper dive into the results from Sep-Oct\/2022, starting with the protection category.<\/p>\n<h2>Real-world threats no match against Malwarebytes cyberprotection<\/h2>\n<p>Malware infections show no signs of slowing down. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/resources\/malwarebytes-threat-review-2022\/index.html\">According to Malwarebytes research<\/a>, malicious software increased by 77 percent in 2021 compared to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, personal users and businesses alike need strong anti-malware to prevent the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/reports\/data-breach#:~:text=%244.54M,a%20ransomware%20attack\"> costly consequences of infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the <strong>Prevention<\/strong> category, AV-TEST tested protection against real-world threats launched by cyber criminals&mdash;including <strong>0-day malware attacks<\/strong> from the Internet, inclusive of <strong>web and email threats<\/strong>. It also tested the detection of widespread and prevalent malware discovered <strong>only in the last 4 weeks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Both Malwarebytes Premium and Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection successfully prevented and detected close to or exactly 100% of malware threats for Nov-Dec\/2022<\/strong>, proving that Malwarebytes can fend off the latest malware and defend against the pathways of infection used most often.<\/p>\n<h2>Industry-leading performance<\/h2>\n<p>Good cyberprotection shouldn&rsquo;t have to come at the cost of system performance&mdash;the last thing you want in your security product is a slowing down of typical operations for daily work on computers.<\/p>\n<p>For the <strong>Performance<\/strong> category, experts at the AV-TEST laboratory examined the effect security products had on performance, placing special attention to four categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slowing-down when launching popular websites<\/li>\n<li>Slower download of frequently-used programs<\/li>\n<li>Slower launch of standard software programs<\/li>\n<li>Slower installation of frequently-used programs<\/li>\n<li>Slower copying of files (locally and in a network)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Both Malwarebytes Premium and Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection scored 100% on the performance test for Nov-Dec\/2022<\/strong>, by and large meeting or beating the industry average in each of the four categories.<\/p>\n<h2>Saying sayonara to false-positives<\/h2>\n<p>When it came to the number of false-positives generated, neither Malwarebytes Premium nor Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>AV-TEST recognizes that false alarms can disturb the work routine just as much as malware attacks can. That&rsquo;s why, for the Usability category, AV-TEST tested the number of false positives in three stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stage 1<\/strong>: False alarms or blocking when visiting websites<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stage 2<\/strong>: False detections of legitimate software as malware during a system scan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stage 3<\/strong>: False alarm test for standard software: false warnings concerning certain actions and blocking of these actions carried out while installing and using legitimate software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection and Malwarebytes Premium&nbsp;scored 100% on the&nbsp;Usability section of the test, beating the industry standard in&nbsp;number of false positives generated whilst installing and using legitimate software<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Nothing but gold for Malwarebytes on the latest AV-TEST assessment<\/h2>\n<p>With the latest AV-TEST results, we&rsquo;re adding yet another notch to our string of successes on leading independent assessments.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&rsquo;s MITRE, MRG-Effitas, or G2, our track-record demonstrates that Malwarebytes has what it takes to keep both personal users and businesses safe from today&rsquo;s most pressing cyberthreats&mdash;and do so&nbsp;with high performance&nbsp;and low false-positives.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about what experts and customers are saying about Malwarebytes:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/business\/2022\/09\/malwarebytes-recognized-as-endpoint-security-leader-by-g2\">Malwarebytes recognized as endpoint security leader by G2<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2022\/03\/mitre-2022\">MITRE ATT&amp;CK&reg; Evaluation results: Malwarebytes&rsquo; efficiency, delivered simply, earns high marks<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/business\/2022\/08\/malwarebytes-receives-highest-rankings-in-recent-third-party-tests\">Malwarebytes receives highest rankings in recent third-party tests<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/business\/2022\/12\/malwarebytes-outperforms-competition-in-latest-mrg-ettifas-assessment\">Malwarebytes outperforms competition in latest MRG Effitas assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/business\/2022\/12\/malwarebytes-earns-av-test-top-product-awards-for-fourth-consecutive-quarter\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/category\/business\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AV-TEST, a leading independent tester of cybersecurity solutions, has just ranked Malwarebytes as a Top Product for consumers and businesses for the fifth quarter in a row.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<p><b>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/business\/2022\/12\/malwarebytes-earns-av-test-top-product-awards-for-fourth-consecutive-quarter\" title=\"Malwarebytes earns AV-TEST Top Product awards for fifth consecutive quarter\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/business\/2022\/12\/malwarebytes-earns-av-test-top-product-awards-for-fourth-consecutive-quarter\">Malwarebytes earns AV-TEST Top Product awards for fifth consecutive quarter<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[1001],"class_list":["post-21138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}