Test Lab
Test Title
MRG Effitas Q2 2019 360 Degree Assessment and Certification
AMTSO Test ID
Platform
Vendor
Publication date
Statement from Test Lab
Tested products
| Vendor | Product | Vendor status |
|---|---|---|
| AVAST | Business Antivirus | participant |
| Avira | Antivirus Pro | participant |
| Bitdefender | Endpoint Security | participant |
| CrowdStrike | Falcon Protect | participant |
| ESET | Endpoint Security | included |
| F-Secure | Computer Protection Premium | participant |
| Kaspersky | Small Office Security | participant |
| Microsoft | Windows Defender | included |
| McAfee | Endpoint Security | included |
| Sophos | Intercept X | participant |
| Symantec | Endpoint Protection | participant |
| Trend Micro | Worry-Free Business Security | included |
AMTSO Standard compliance info
Notification issued
Notification method
Test plan
Commencement date
Participants
“Included” Vendors
These Vendors did not chose to adopt Participant status under the AMTSO Standard, but may have engaged with the test lab in other ways.
| Commentary | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 Commentary | 2019-05-09 | 2019-05-17 |
| Phase 2 Commentary | 2019-08-26 | 2019-09-03 |
Commentary received
| Vendor | Commentary phase | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Symantec | Phase 1 | “Section 4.b: The Window File Explorer has an known issue that incorrectly reports the actual disk utilization where ‘hardlinks’ are used with applications. Norton Security uses hardlinks and Windows File Explorer incorrectly repots the amount of space being used by Norton Security. For the detailed description of Windows File Explorer, please refer to the Microsoft documentation (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mrsnrub/2008/10/25/dont-trust-all-your-eyes-tell-you-hard-links-in-windows-vista/). Our recommendation is to consider using an advanced tool called ‘Disk Usage’ from Microsoft. The tool is available at this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/du and it reports the correct and accurate disk utilization of Windows applications. We can provide a document that has an example of Windows Explorer is reporting a disk utilization of 9.10 TB where the actual size of C drive is only 753GB. Section 4.d: “”Working set”” displayed in the task manager is not a good representation of how much memory is being used by a process. A better reflection would be “”virtual private bytes”” as a measure. General performance: c. 3 iterations for evaluating performance is too less. Ideally the each set should consist of at least 10 iterations.“ |
AMTSO Standard compliance status
| Confirmed compliant with AMTSO Standard v1.1 | Compliance Report |
