SE Labs Q2 2026 Endpoint Protection: Enterprise, Small Business, and Consumer

We tested a variety of anti-malware (aka ‘anti-virus’; aka ‘endpoint security’) products from a range of well-known vendors in an effort to judge which were the most effective. Each product faced the same threats. Specifically, these included a mixture of targeted attacks that used well established techniques, as well as public email and web based threats that were live on the internet at the time of the test. The results indicate how effectively the products were at detecting and/or protecting against those threats in real-time.