November 27, 2017 | Internet of Things
Children’s GPS trackers disguised as smart watches promise parents seamless digital supervision of their offspring. But the evaluation of six of the latest children's watches by the AV-Test Institute...
November 13, 2017 | Internet of Things
Doors open by app as if by magic, even from across the globe. Smart Locks are affordable, can be installed without any technical skills and are child’s play to operate. But are they secure as well, or...
October 25, 2017 | Repair tests for Windows
9 protection packages and 8 tools were required to demonstrate whether they can completely clean up and recover a Windows system after a successful malware attack. And they can! But a frequently...
August 28, 2017 | Parental control
Many parents consider it completely normal to regulate their children's access to the Internet via a PC. It is astounding that this is not the case with smart phone use: Children normally have full...
August 16, 2017 | Antivirus for Windows
In its recent endurance test, which was carried out over a period of 6 months, AV-TEST tested 18 Internet security suites for their protection, performance and usability. The test shows: more than...
August 02, 2017 | Parental control
Can parental control software protect children as well as parents imagine? Good question. Here is the answer in the form of a current test of 13 parental control products for Windows, in addition to...
July 12, 2017 | Antivirus for Android
According to statistics, there are over 2.5 billion Android devices worldwide. They need to be protected against more than 20 million malware threats. In an endurance test from January to June 2017,...
July 05, 2017 | Research
No cause for concern due to the declining malware statistics? Far off target. Because the formula of the newly-developed attack strategies in 2016 is based on: Quality, not quantity! Whether it be...
July 05, 2017 | Antivirus for macOS
Additional security packages for the Mac were not popular, as in the past, they put too heavy a load on the system. The current test with 10 leading security packages for MacOS Sierra proves that many...