Released or re-assessment by the independent institute AV-Test testing laboratories to protect against virus products for 8.1. The evaluation compared the performance of the March to April 2014.
The market peak of that defense is now in the operating system with which most new computers come.
The vast majority of consumers identified 100 percent, or came close to it, from the unknown test malware. Only three out of 25 (Tencent PC Manager 8.5, Defender 4.3 & 4.4, and AhnLab V3 Security 8.0) detected less than 94 percent of unknown malware. A new product in the tests was the ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version 13.0.
Of the nine products for businesses, only Bitdefender Endpoint Security 5.3 got a top score in performance. The other products were observed false positive detections and warnings, but they were so few that the AV-TEST and gave nine top score for efficiency. The highest total score was a perfect 18.0, and went to the Bitdefender product.
From products for the consumers; Internet Security 2014, the Qihoo 360 Internet Security 4.2, the Kingsoft Antivirus 2013, and Tencent PC Manager 8.5 - had the top performance results. Some of the other like Cloud Antivirus FREE 2.3, VIPRE Internet Security 2014, and PCKeeper Antivirus Pro 1.0, fared quite well in this test. Top scores were given in 20 of the 25 products.