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I think AV Comparatives are independent -- at least they were when I last had to read up on all this several years ago. At the time (2010ish), they even had a

I think AV Comparatives are independent -- at least they were when I last had to read up on all this several years ago. At the time (2010ish), they even had a few reports where they showed that pretty much all the AV products were quite bad. Either they failed to detect a large portion of real malware, and/or they were a huge drain on the system's resources.

krylon 10y ago
> Either they failed to detect a large portion of real malware, and/or they were a huge drain on the system's resources. Those aren't mutually exclusive... ;-) Some things never change, I guess. As a Windows admin who uses Unix-ish systems exclusively at home, I am a little clueless sometimes. When using AV software on our computers, I can at least point to that and say I did what I could (be reasonably expected to do), but whenever I read what people who really know about IT security have to say about the AV industry, I get the feeling it's all just a bunch of charlatans and snake oil peddlers. But the latter is a little difficult to explain to my boss without sounding like a tinfoil-hat-wearing lunatic.