G Data and Microsoft, face and the cross of security solutions

The laboratories of the company AV Comparatives have been tested to the main security solutions market. The results show that G Data has achieved improvements malware blocking rates, while Microsoft’s solution presented the lowest levels.

Security has become a key issue for companies and users that are active on the Internet. Currently it is estimated that every two seconds a new malware is created, which allows you an idea of the need to be protected. The increase in threats requires users to have the best protection available and the Austrian AV Comparatives laboratory has attempted to determine which current solution offers greater guarantees.


In total, 20 AV Comparatives has compared different solutions, which have been bombarded with a malware collection includes more than 290,000 different threats. The aim is to test the reaction of threats to different types of malware and determine their effectiveness against viruses that have managed to repel.

After testing, the solution G Data AntiVirus 2012 has achieved the best score, with efficiency of 99 , 7 percent. Thus, G Data Antivirus repel would have gotten virtually all of the threats made ​​by AV Comparatives, positioning itself as one of the most comprehensive in the market to keep systems protected. If G Data has achieved the best results in the opposite side has been the Microsoft security solution. The data suggest that the security tool of the Redmond company would have struggled to repel the 6.9 percent of the threats he was subjected, which could be fatal to users. Given that precisely in Windows, Microsoft System is one of the services where most threats are recognized, the solution data of the company are not all positive.