Bitdefender has maintained its lead on the rest of the industry after its success of 2012 products and launched its 2013 products in AV-TEST trials. Bitdefender has scored 17 out of 18 possible points, beating all other 23 leading antivirus producers in the latest round of testing.
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Catalin Cosoi, Chief Security Strategist, Bitdefender said, “This is the AV-TEST round the industry was eagerly awaiting - the first tests of the most popular 2013 products. We had a stunningly successful run with the 2012 generation of products that shot us firmly into world leadership spot of the industry. Now, after the first tests based on our 2013 generation of products, it looks like we’re going to advance even more.”
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Bitdefender products have claimed the top spot in AV-TEST trials eight times, more than any other antivirus provider, and won AV-TEST’s prestigious annual Best Protection 2011 award. Bitdefender in the past year has also repeatedly won in trials by AV Comparatives, another independent testing firm, winning the organization’s Advanced +Award and its overall Top Rated Award for 2011. Bitdefender has also won top certification from VB 100 and was named Editor’s Choice by both PC Mag and Cnet.
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In the latest round of AV-TEST trials, Bitdefender scored  6 of 6 in the Protection category and 6 in the category of “cleaning and repair of a malware-infected computer” detecting 100 percent of “widespread and prevalent malware” and offering 100 percent protection against zero-day malware attacks, according to the AV-TEST results .
