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using AMTSO's anti-malware feature checks

The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) provides a way to test antivirus programs. Well, it’’’’s actually a check of features and settings. Go tohttp://www.amtso.org/feature-settings-check.html (“Feature Settings Check for Desktop Solutions”), where there are 5 features to check:

1. Test if my protection against the manual download of malware (EICAR.COM) is enabled
2. Test if my protection against a drive-by download (EICAR.COM) is enabled
3. Test if my protection against the download of a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) is enabled
4. Test if protection against accessing a Phishing Page is enabled
5. Test if my cloud protection is enabled

I use Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac and have for several years, so I tried these out.

EDIT 2014-03-26 changed test #3 to #4): I had to set some preferences correctly but after doing so SAV passed tests 1, 2, 3, and 5. In my test SAV does not pass the anti-phishing web site test (#4).

I’’’’d appreciate it if other users of SAV would test their settings. I’’’’d rather find that that I made some mistake and that SAV protected against phishing web sites.

Thanks!

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  • Hi ruckus, thanks for the careful testing and the clear description. I am not getting the "scan with Sophos" option on right-click so I can't test quite the same way. This computer is also suffering from quite slow response, even freezes, so I have reset SAV to all default preferences, will watch for a day of normal use, then start turning off functions and see if the freezes go away.

    I'm impressed with the TLC your team give to customer input on this forum. Too bad the product-and-platform combination is so temperamental!

    --Bob

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  • Hi ruckus, thanks for the careful testing and the clear description. I am not getting the "scan with Sophos" option on right-click so I can't test quite the same way. This computer is also suffering from quite slow response, even freezes, so I have reset SAV to all default preferences, will watch for a day of normal use, then start turning off functions and see if the freezes go away.

    I'm impressed with the TLC your team give to customer input on this forum. Too bad the product-and-platform combination is so temperamental!

    --Bob

    :1016545
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