I’ve received a lot a questions on how i determine what a 5 star anti-virus is. Below are the 5 criteria I use:
1. Does it remove general malware:
-like viruses, trojans and rootkits
2. Does it remove rogueware like:
-Rogue Anti-Malware
-Rogue Anti-Privacy
3. Does it detect and remove adware
-Virtumonde
-Does it remove the majority of adware
-Does it remove adware protection agents (which prevent adware removal)
4. Does it work in safemode
-will it load in safemode
-will it scan in safemode
-can I update it in safemode
-can I remove malware in safemode
5. Does it have a high detection rate both via static virus definitions and heuretics (behavior analysis)
