In a 10-month long test, AV-TEST tried to find out if antivirus products are capable of cleaning and repairing a Windows system in the aftermath of a malware infection. The results concluded that the current security solutions on the market can clean the malicious software from a system and restore it to its previous pristine state. Between September 2013 and June 2014, AV-TEST, an independent organization that evaluates the performance of security software, put through this challenge a numb…