For reputation, we normally trust the reviews and ratings given for that particular antivirus software.

Redditor,went a little further and devised his own tests to find out how the Antivirus softwares fare.

He tested the most popular security software using Matousecs SSTS, CLT and his own keylogger software.

Top Anti-virus like Avast, McAfee, Norton, Avira, Kaspersky and Bitdefender fail miserably in basic security tests

Incidentally, SpyShelter is not a full blown antivirus.

Its more of a Firewall which doubles up as AV.

Man_on_the_train found that only SpyShelter passed Matousecs SSTS, CLT and his own keylogger software tests.

Top Anti-virus like Avast, McAfee, Norton, Avira, Kaspersky and Bitdefender fail miserably in basic security tests

SpyShelter does excellent job in protecting itself from being killed off by malware.

It does detect attempts of executing malicious code through Task Scheduler.

Man_on_the_train gave it highest score of 60 % after SpyShelter.

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While BitDefender Total Security 2015 managed a 4% score and Norton Security managed a paltry 2%.

ESET and Kaspersky managed to pass the Kill5 Test and Zone Alarm managed to pass the Zero-Day malware test.

Here are the conclusions given by Man_on_the_train for each Antivirus software.

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source: www.techworm.net