{"id":45005,"date":"2026-01-14T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=45005"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:38:00","slug":"av-comparatives-releases-consumer-summary-report-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=45005","title":{"rendered":"AV-Comparatives Releases Consumer Summary Report 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2608678\/5717793\/AV_Comparatives_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><i>Independent Testing Highlights Top-Performing Consumer Security Solutions<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">INNSBRUCK, Austria<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Jan. 15, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; AV-Comparatives, the internationally recognised independent authority in cybersecurity testing, has published its <i>Consumer Summary Report 2025<\/i>, presenting a comprehensive overview of the performance of leading consumer security products for Windows. The report summarises a full year of rigorous, scientifically sound testing designed to help consumers identify effective and reliable cybersecurity solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Summary Report consolidates results from AV-Comparatives&#8217; 2025 Consumer Main-Test Series, in which 19 widely used security products were evaluated. Testing covered real-world protection against live internet threats, malware detection capabilities, resistance to advanced attacks, system performance impact, and the frequency of false alarms. All tests were conducted using transparent methodologies under real-life conditions, ensuring unbiased and reproducible results.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key Findings<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Top-Rated Products 2025<\/b><br \/>Products that demonstrated consistently high performance across all test categories received AV-Comparatives&#8217; prestigious <i>Top-Rated Product Award<\/i>. For 2025, these were: Avast Free Antivirus, AVG AntiVirus Free, Bitdefender Total Security, ESET HOME Security Essential, G DATA Total Security, Kaspersky Premium, and Norton Antivirus Plus.<\/p>\n<p><b>Category Awards<\/b><br \/>To recognise excellence in specific areas, AV-Comparatives awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze distinctions across individual test categories:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Real-World Protection<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Norton; Silver \u2013 Bitdefender; Bronze \u2013 Avira, Kaspersky, McAfee<\/li>\n<li><b>Malware Protection<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Kaspersky; Silver \u2013 G DATA; Bronze \u2013 Bitdefender<\/li>\n<li><b>Performance (Low System Impact)<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Avast &amp; AVG; Silver \u2013 Norton; Bronze \u2013 McAfee<\/li>\n<li><b>Advanced Threat Protection<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Bitdefender &amp; ESET<\/li>\n<li><b>False Positives<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Kaspersky; Silver \u2013 Total Defense; Bronze \u2013 Bitdefender<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These awards reflect not only strong protection capabilities, but also a balanced approach to usability and system efficiency \u2014 essential factors for everyday users.<\/p>\n<p><b>User Experience Review<\/b><br \/>In addition to technical testing, the report includes a structured user-interface review for each product, evaluating installation, configuration options, alerts, and overall ease of use. This ensures the assessments reflect both security effectiveness and real-world practicality.<\/p>\n<p><b>Independent Guidance for Consumers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 2025 Consumer Summary Report demonstrates that many vendors continue to deliver a very high level of protection,&#8221; said <b>Andreas Clementi, CEO and Founder of AV-Comparatives<\/b>. &#8220;Our goal remains to provide independent, transparent testing that enables consumers to make well-informed security decisions based on reliable data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Consumer Summary Report 2025<\/i> is available for free download at<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/tests\/summary-report-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/tests\/summary-report-2025\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2608678\/5717793\/AV_Comparatives_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><i>Independent Testing Highlights Top-Performing Consumer Security Solutions<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">INNSBRUCK, Austria<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Jan. 15, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; AV-Comparatives, the internationally recognised independent authority in cybersecurity testing, has published its <i>Consumer Summary Report 2025<\/i>, presenting a comprehensive overview of the performance of leading consumer security products for Windows. The report summarises a full year of rigorous, scientifically sound testing designed to help consumers identify effective and reliable cybersecurity solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Summary Report consolidates results from AV-Comparatives&#8217; 2025 Consumer Main-Test Series, in which 19 widely used security products were evaluated. Testing covered real-world protection against live internet threats, malware detection capabilities, resistance to advanced attacks, system performance impact, and the frequency of false alarms. All tests were conducted using transparent methodologies under real-life conditions, ensuring unbiased and reproducible results.<\/p>\n<p><b>Key Findings<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Top-Rated Products 2025<\/b><br \/>Products that demonstrated consistently high performance across all test categories received AV-Comparatives&#8217; prestigious <i>Top-Rated Product Award<\/i>. For 2025, these were: Avast Free Antivirus, AVG AntiVirus Free, Bitdefender Total Security, ESET HOME Security Essential, G DATA Total Security, Kaspersky Premium, and Norton Antivirus Plus.<\/p>\n<p><b>Category Awards<\/b><br \/>To recognise excellence in specific areas, AV-Comparatives awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze distinctions across individual test categories:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Real-World Protection<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Norton; Silver \u2013 Bitdefender; Bronze \u2013 Avira, Kaspersky, McAfee<\/li>\n<li><b>Malware Protection<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Kaspersky; Silver \u2013 G DATA; Bronze \u2013 Bitdefender<\/li>\n<li><b>Performance (Low System Impact)<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Avast &amp; AVG; Silver \u2013 Norton; Bronze \u2013 McAfee<\/li>\n<li><b>Advanced Threat Protection<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Bitdefender &amp; ESET<\/li>\n<li><b>False Positives<\/b>: Gold \u2013 Kaspersky; Silver \u2013 Total Defense; Bronze \u2013 Bitdefender<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These awards reflect not only strong protection capabilities, but also a balanced approach to usability and system efficiency \u2014 essential factors for everyday users.<\/p>\n<p><b>User Experience Review<\/b><br \/>In addition to technical testing, the report includes a structured user-interface review for each product, evaluating installation, configuration options, alerts, and overall ease of use. This ensures the assessments reflect both security effectiveness and real-world practicality.<\/p>\n<p><b>Independent Guidance for Consumers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 2025 Consumer Summary Report demonstrates that many vendors continue to deliver a very high level of protection,&#8221; said <b>Andreas Clementi, CEO and Founder of AV-Comparatives<\/b>. &#8220;Our goal remains to provide independent, transparent testing that enables consumers to make well-informed security decisions based on reliable data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Consumer Summary Report 2025<\/i> is available for free download at<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/tests\/summary-report-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/tests\/summary-report-2025\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}