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As per the most recent AV-Test evaluations, Bitdefender, Kaspersky Lab, and Trend Micro managed and continued to get the top rank in the list. As expected, the same trend has been maintained by these home antivirus programs running on Windows 10 OS. Considering other antivirus programs, Microsoft Windows Defender and McAfee too improved their rankings. In the past year, they got a lower ranking in comparison to this year.

AV-Test is a Madgeburg, Germany-based testing lab. They make evaluations for the home antivirus programs (Windows, Mac, and Android) in a shot interval of few months. The position of Windows 10 is clear in all aspects, and Bitdefender and Kaspersky topped the ranking as per the assessments made.

The assessments further revealed that that both the Windows Defender and McAfee have improved a lot, and they got good ranking on account of an improved and better protection offered by them. AV-Test conducts the evaluation of an anti-virus program’s protection on the basis of a device’s reaction against flaws. The other things that are equally considered include the performance of the system, a computer’s running capacity, and its accessibility as per the interface and navigation. Each category gets six points as per the assessments made. Furthermore, a “Top Product” badge is awarded by AV-test to any program that attains the score of 18.

This year, the “Top Product” badge was awarded to seven contenders - AhnLab V3 Internet Security 9.0, Bitdefender Internet Security 22.0, Kaspersky Lab Internet Security 18.0, McAfee Internet Security 20.5, Trend Micro Internet Security 12.0, VIPRE Advanced Security 10.1 and Avira Antivirus Pro 15.0. All these antivirus programs excelled well in getting top marks. Another interesting thing is that there wasn’t, any any contender that got low score this time, excluding ESET Internet Security 11.0 who got the lowest score of 15.

The antivirus programs that got the similar ratings are Avast Free Antivirus 17.7 & 17.8, AVG Internet Security 17.7 & 17.8, Bull Guard Internet Security 18.0, Comodo Internet Security Premium 10.0, F-Secure Safe 17, G Data Internet Security 25.4, K7 Computing Total Security 15.1, Microsoft Windows Defender 4.12, Micro World eScan Internet Security Suite 14.0, Norton Security 22.11, Panda Security Free Antivirus 1.0 and PC Pit stop PC Matic 3.0. All the assessments were made by AV-Test in an organized manner.

The most considerable part of the AV-Test evaluation method is that they have projected Windows Defender as a good security program. Interestingly, Windows Defender achieved this good ranking in comparison to its low ranking this year. Another good point is that Windows 10 OS is pretty resistant, and all the anti-virus programs work well on it.

To conclude with, we can say, if you would like to utilize an antivirus program on Windows 10, make sure you choose the best program as per your preference and budget.

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