In 2021, our threat detection engine has identified and blocked nearly four million unique phishing URLs each month on average,' said Siggi Stefnisson, Head of Threat Labs, at Avast. 'Recently, Avast has excelled in the anti-phishing category, which is bad news for opportunistic cybercriminals who often depend on the high success rates of phishing attacks as a means of generating greater return on investment.' 'For many years, Avast's threat detection engine has been a standout performer achieving excellent results in the Malware Protection, Advanced Threat Protection and Real-World Protection Tests,' said Andreas Clementi, Founder and CEO of AV-Comparatives.
At the time of testing, all products were updated to their latest software versions. The browser extensions of the AVs were installed and enabled, and the competing browsers were tested without an antivirus program running.
The phishing protection provided by the AV products was tested on Windows 10 using Google Chrome 97.0 with Google Safebrowsing disabled. Source: AV Comparatives Anti-Phishing Protection Report, 2022ĪV-Comparatives' study, which ran from 13 January to 28 January 2022, tested all browser and antivirus products in parallel, exposing each to 250 valid and independently-selected phishing URLs, and 250 clean URLs for false alarm detection. Avast Secure Browser, a privacy-first browser with anti-phishing technology, also ranked first with a 95% block rate, ahead of Microsoft Edge (80%), Firefox (77%), Opera (56%) and Google Chrome (34%). Avast One Essential recorded a detection rate of 99%, published in a report * by independent antivirus (AV) testing organization AV-Comparatives, which also evaluated the effectiveness of phishing page detection among some of the world's leading browsers. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Avast One Essential, the award-winning online protection service from digital security and privacy leader Avast, has achieved the top spot in a phishing detection comparison test between leading free and paid cyber safety software, including products from Kaspersky, McAfee, ESET, Bitdefender and Microsoft Defender.
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