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March 12, 2000 | Text: Markus Selinger | Awards
AV-TEST Award 2025 for Avira
For quite some time, robust cybersecurity has not only been a guarantor of data protection. In times of ransomware, infostealers and other dangerous malware, it is all the more important to provide all-round protection, e.g. for identities, financial, system and network information. AV-TEST experts in the test labs ascertain in thousands of tests which protection products on the market keep their protection promise for Windows, Mac and Android, and based on the findings, the lab issues certificates for tested security. The AV-TEST Awards 2025 mark the 15th time that the institute has recognized the best security products for consumer users and companies that have consistently proven themselves with top scores in all tests. For its absolutely flawless detection of harmless and malicious files under Windows, Avira from Gen Digital receives the Best Usability Award for Consumer Users.
AV-TEST Award 2025
for Avira
AV-TEST Award – for tested and reliable IT security
There are many product reviews on the Internet. But truly professional tests always adhere to standards and are therefore fully comprehensible and reproducible at all times – as has been the case with all tests in the labs of the AV-TEST Institute for over 20 years.
All tested products for Windows, Mac and Android platforms for consumer users or corporate users are subject to these test standards, which can also be viewed on the AV-TEST website. The testers document the test findings with great reliability and extreme precision. They only award a certificate for tested security if a product fulfills the set test criteria in the evaluated areas of Protection, Performance and Usability. If the results are outstanding, products also earn further recognition as a TOP PRODUCT.
Along with testing Windows solutions at set intervals, the laboratory also carries out Advanced Threat Protection tests, or ATP tests for short. In these special tests, the security products have to prove themselves repeatedly in real-life scenarios in which, depending on the threat situation, the latest attack techniques from ransomware and infostealers are deployed.
All products continuously proving themselves in the ongoing tests by achieving top scores are found in the latest AV-TEST Awards 2025 evaluation matrix. This year, the test experts at the AV-TEST Institute are presenting 25 awards to 12 different manufacturers. The awards are available in 11 categories, divided into Protection, Performance, Usability and Advanced Protection under Windows. Added to this are Mac Security and Android Security. Every manufacturer can rightfully take pride in their award – some of them even with several awards – as the pathway to one of the coveted trophies is long. Consumer users and corporate users can quickly identify reliable and continuously tested protection products on the basis of the award. In doing so, they acquire an important element of security or may even already be making use of it.
AV-TEST Award for Avira – special recognition for strong IT security
Many Windows users are quickly unsettled when their protection solution reports an alarm that is not really an alarm at all. Under certain circumstances, this can lead to a complete loss of trust in the user's system and they will undertake the extreme time and effort of deleting and reinstalling their Windows. That is why it is important that a security product is able to make a clear, error-free distinction between good and malicious files and doesn’t produce any false alarms.
The protection package Avira Security proved how well it can do this under Windows in all lab tests in 2025. For this outstanding performance, the AV-TEST Institute confers on Avira the Best Usability 2025 Award for Consumer Users under Windows.
“Every expert knows from their own private use of Windows just how vital it is to be able to trust their system. Even the mere suspicion triggered by a false alarm can undermine this trust. As the many tests in 2025 have shown, Avira Security under Windows deserves accolades and recognition for its particularly good test values when it comes to false alarms. That is why the AV-TEST team is delighted to present Avira, a Gen Digital brand, with the Best Usability Award for Consumer Users for its security product,” says Erik Heyland, Head of Testing Labs at AV-TEST.
