AV-Comparatives Forum

Hi, how often updates are released does not tell anything how many or how fast new malware is added. A company could release 5000 updates at day, each one covering just 1 (old) malware, while another may update just once at day but add 20000 new/current malware. Also the cloud says nothing about speed, unless they just add the samples to the cloud without properly analyzing the files (and take again out the files from the cloud if complains are observed). How fast your sample will be added may depend on what priority they give to you or to the sample, e.g. based on your license type (home or business), if you provided a valid license at all, if you told that you are infected by the malware or if you just found it somewhere and you are not actually having a problem with it. If the AV company considers it as having no priority, the sample may be even added in some months/years or not at all. But since you know it is malware, why bother. What would be more helpful would be good heuristics to spot new/unknown malware in advance, so e.g. the retrospective test would be more useful than couting the number of updates per day.