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Too practical of a response.Has the thought ever accrued that these all are with exception of one hitting high detection rates on default settings with someone literally "trying" to infect the system.
From this test, one can classify products as follows:
Leaders (0 compromise): Avast, AVG, F-Secure, Kaspersky.
Acceptable performance/average: Avira, Bitdefender, Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro
Weaker than average competitors (one can easily do better by looking elsewhere): Eset, GData, Microsoft, Panda, Total Defense.
Rock bottom/avoid: TotalAV
Joke/not sure why it’s there: QuickHeal
Did not participate: Webroot, Comodo, ZoneAlarm, Malwarebytes.
I doubt this is the case because the very same samples, delivered the same way, most likely through malicious downloads, are detected by everyone else.Maybe there are differences between malware delivery method or real/unrealistic protocol delivery into the system? Or maybe the samples are not so malicious if QH engine pass throuth without block some of them, I do not know...