AMTSO Real Time Threat List Certification

AV-Comparatives has published its test results of 29 Anti-Malware products, including Security Suites, Free AVs, and endpoint security products. All were challenged on a Windows 7 SP1 64 bit platform with 299 threats culled from the Real Time Threat List (RTLL), an international repository of malware samples submitted by experts, and  maintained by the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) on June 27, 2016. All threats were confirmed to be malicious by testing in a sandbox. All security products were tested using their default configuration, and allowed full cloud access. Certification was given to those products that detected and blocked more than 98% of the threats.

Raw results of testing were not reported for the products, only whether or not Certification was awarded. You can view the report in PDF format here:
www.av-comparatives.org/.../avc_rttl_201606_en.pdf

Comments:

All but 3 of the products achieved certification.

All the free AVs tested (Avast Free Antivirus, Panda Free Antivirus, and Microsoft Security Essentials) achieved certification. This was no surprise, although MSE has not scored so well in other recent testing. Other free AVs (eg: from Ad-Aware, AVG, Avira, Bitdefender, Comodo, Sophos and ZoneAlarm) were not tested.

This is actually the second certification report by AV-C using the RTLL. Results from the first test in March 2016  were substantially the same:
www.av-comparatives.org/.../rttl_cert_201603_en.pdf

A critique of AMTSO testing can be seen here:
antimalwaretesting.wordpress.com/.../