Using an antivirus when we connect to the Internet has become vital. More and more threats are hiding in the network and that, without realizing it, can endanger our PC. These programs are in charge of controlling all the connections that are made from the computer, and all the files that are executed, to find any suspicious activity that could endanger our security. Today there is a wide variety of different antivirus for PC, but which is the best?
Testing all the antivirus on the market ourselves is not feasible. For this reason, there are other platforms that do it for us and that allow us to easily know if our antivirus is protecting us adequately or if we are using inefficient security software.
Security companies usually update their antivirus software every so often. Therefore, it is very important to know if the latest versions of these security programs are protecting us properly. The AV-Comparatives platform analyzes the most recent versions of antivirus on the market from time to time to find out if a specific version is safe or not.
Best Antivirus for Windows – September 2020
The latest AV-Comparatives security tests were carried out in September 2020. Thanks to them we can find out which antivirus offer the best protection, the ones with the highest threat detection rate, the ones that slow down the most. computer and those that give us a greater number of false positives.
According to these new tests, those antivirus programs that have offered us a perfect 100% protection are:
- Avast
- AVG
- G-DATA
- McAfee
- Windows Defender
However, although these antivirus have obtained 100% protection, the usability leaves a little to be desired. All of them have returned more or less false positives to users, with G-DATA generating the fewest false positives, Avast, AVG and McAfee the intermediate ones, and Windows Defender the most.
On the other hand, the antivirus that protect us the worst are Trend Micro , for having the lowest detection rate of all those analyzed, and Panda Antivirus , for having a disproportionate false positive rate. K7 and Norton are also antivirus that trigger false positives and that, if we are not careful with them, could endanger the stability and integrity of our PC.
We can see in depth the results of the tests in the following link .
Which security software do I install and which don’t
According to the results obtained by AV Comparatives, the platform recommends us to install an antivirus from the ones that appear in the following list to have Advanced + protection.
- Avast
- AVG
- Bitdefender
- ESET
- F-Secure
- G-DATA
- Kaspersky
- McAfee
These are the ones that, measuring the average between protection and false positives, have obtained the best results. Those that have been included within the Advanced protection are also good options , that is:
- Avira
- Microsoft
- NortonLifeLock
- Total AV
- Total Defense
Norton and Windows Defender are not within the “Advanced +” section, mainly due to the high number of false positives, but their protection is up to par.
Finally, those antivirus that have been in last place, and that it is better not to install if we are looking for good protection are:
- K7
- VIPRE
- Panda
- Trend Micro
