AV-Comparatives finds Microsoft Defender has one of the worst offline detection rates

Anti-malware assessment company AV-Comparatives today released its latest March 2022 report. The report found that Microsoft's in-house Defender antivirus software had one of the worst offline detection rates, at just 60.3 percent. Meanwhile, G DATA topped the list with 98.6%. This means Microsoft Defender relies heavily on cloud-based protection.

However, Microsoft products have the best online detection and protection rates. If you're wondering what the difference between protection and detection is, here's how AV-Comparatives defines the two:

The file detection tests we performed in previous years were detection-only tests. That is, it only tests the security program's ability to detect malicious program files before execution.

[..] This malware protection test not only checks detection rate, but also protection capabilities, which is the ability to prevent a malicious program from actually making any changes to the system.

You can find a complete comparison of offline and online detection rates and protection rates for various anti-malware solutions in the image below:

Here's a breakdown of protection rates for various antivirus programs. A total of 10,040 malicious samples were used for testing:

Here is the complete breakdown of the entire malware protection test data for March 2022:

In addition to the malware protection tests, AV-Comparatives also publishes data from what it calls real-world protection tests, which you can see in the image below. Here's how the company differentiates between the two:

In the malware protection test, malicious files are executed on the system. In a real-world protection test, the vector is the network, while in a malware protection test, the vector can be a network drive, a USB, or a scenario where the overlay malware is already on the disk.

#Finally, we have the awards for various tested anti-virus programs. Microsoft Defender gets top marks here, as it received the ADVANCED award. By the way, no product received the Premium Award.

You can find more details about the test in the source link below.

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