{"id":13431,"date":"2025-06-20T16:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13431"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:50:13","slug":"how-good-is-your-antivirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13431","title":{"rendered":"How good is your antivirus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You never know unless you actually test it against actual attacks. Fortunately you don&#8217;t have too. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/consumer\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/consumer\/\">AV Comparatives<\/a> seems to have a regularly updated report on how well the most popular antivirus programs actually do against viruses and malware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.av-comparatives.org\/tests\/real-world-protection-test-july-october-2024\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" data-attachment-id=\"13432\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=13432\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/02\/chart.png?fit=1011%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1011,576\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chart\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/02\/chart.png?fit=640%2C365&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/02\/chart.png?resize=640%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/02\/chart.png?w=1011&amp;ssl=1 1011w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/02\/chart.png?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/02\/chart.png?resize=768%2C438&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/02\/chart.png?resize=474%2C270&amp;ssl=1 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/pcsecuritychannel.com\/best-antivirus\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pcsecuritychannel.com\/best-antivirus\">PCSecurityChannel <\/a>also has a list of it&#8217;s recommendations along with videos of what they found when they tested the different solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know unless you actually test it against actual attacks. Fortunately you don&#8217;t have too. AV Comparatives seems to have a regularly updated report on how well the most popular antivirus programs actually do against viruses and malware. 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