Driving innovation and transparency in efficacy testing

When performing Android antivirus 360° efficacy testing at MRG Effitas, we try to keep practicality for the everyday user in mind to ensure that the resulting efficacy scores reflect the real-life performance of our panel participants. Having performed quarterly tests for the last four years using our original Android methodology, we feel it is time for an evolution.

When performing quarterly assessments of Android AVs and doing the necessary research to keep ourselves up-to-date, we keep an eye on the trends in mobile application security.

At MRG Effitas we have a great deal of experience testing and working with antivirus software.

One of the most interesting and challenging parts of our 360° Protection Testing is the exploits/fileless test.

The beginning It’s the year 2018, somewhere around the end of October in one of the most beautiful islands in the world.

Why the nature and philosophy of Android make it the go-to platform for threat actors and why Android malware is on the rise.

Introduction Recently, we have been working on some advanced Android malware and to test some ideas, we opted to create some custom samples.

At MRG Effitas we have a great deal of experience testing and working with antivirus software.

Researchers of MRG Effitas tested the Webroot SecureAnywhere Android application.