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March 26, 2025 | Text: Markus Selinger | Awards
AV-TEST Awards 2024 for McAfee
Every day, cybersecurity products deliver monitoring and protection services reliably in the background, unnoticed by many end users and company employees. The renowned AV-TEST Institute has been testing and recognizing these "hidden champions" for over 20 years. This year, the institute is once again presenting its coveted AV-TEST Awards 2024. In thousands of tests, the experts examined name-brand protection products for consumer users and corporate users on Windows, Mac and Android and certified them for their strong security performance. The AV-TEST Award 2024 honors the products that have consistently stood out with top scores and achieved peak ratings in the long-term test results throughout 2024. For its particularly impressive protection results in the advanced test under Windows, McAfee is receiving the Best Advanced Protection 2024 Award and also the Best Performance under Windows Award, both for consumer users.
AV-TEST Awards 2024
for McAfee
AV-TEST Award – recognition for verified IT security
Comprehensible, standards-based tests are a high priority for the experts at the AV-TEST Institute. All products evaluated in the test labs for Windows, Mac and Android always undergo a defined test structure and documentation. Only this professional approach ensures that test results are reproducible, valid and consistent at all times. That is why the institute explains all test procedures openly and transparently on its website. All the products tested and certified in 2024 always received clear ratings in the areas of Protection (protective function), Performance (speed) and Usability (user-friendliness). In addition to the standard tests for the operating systems mentioned, the testers also evaluated products under Windows in the special Advanced Threat Protection test. This ATP test offers insights into how Windows products are able to defend against ransomware and info stealers in real-life scenarios.
In all tests in 2024, the products examined and meeting the demanding test criteria received a certificate for tested security against digital threats. If products achieved results significantly above the industry standard at the end of a test evaluation, the AV-TEST team also awarded the distinction of "TOP PRODUCT". The products honored in an award category participated in all laboratory tests without exception throughout 2024. AV-TEST summarizes the results of these tests and uses them as the basis for determining the award winners. The AV-TEST Award leads to greater trust in the tested products among corporate users, consumer users and the media, as the awards stand for tested security on a long-term basis and according to the highest professional standards.
AV-TEST Awards for McAfee – award-winning IT security
For many users, reliable defense against malware under Windows is the most important aspect where security software is concerned. The detection of attackers is only one of a number of important factors in this defense, as is proven by the extended Advanced Threat Protection tests (ATP), which document and evaluate all stages of attack and defense in ten real-life scenarios. For its extremely good results in these tests, McAfee Total Protection is receiving the Best Advanced Protection Award for Consumer Users.
Although good security is important for users, it is also essential that the chosen security package does not slow down the Windows system. In all Windows tests, the test team therefore examines the amount of system resources required by the packages and how much of a load they have on the system as a result. Throughout these tests, McAfee Total Protection constantly demonstrated its ability to perform extremely well while using very few resources. For this strong performance, AV-TEST is presenting its Best Performance Award for Consumer Users to the vendor McAfee.
“The vendor McAfee has been committed to the protection of operating systems for a very long time and has always achieved excellent performance. Its results in the ATP test, the advanced test under Windows systems, in particular, are worthy of an award, and the careful way in which its products use system resources under Windows is also highly deserving of such praise. As a result, the AV-TEST team is particularly pleased to present the security vendor McAfee with the Best Advanced Protection and Best Performance Awards for Consumer Users,” declares Erik Heyland, Head of Testing Labs at AV-TEST.