Yes, of course.
The whole MDL initiative is vey unfortunate IMO. Every day, there are thousands of new viruses, and MDL publishes maybe ten, twenty of them. Which is fine per se, but unfortunately, many self-proclaimed "testers" just take the MDL lists, run their favorite AV's through all the links and publish the results pretending they are meaningful (ideally by means of a youtube video).
I always hated to do something just because of getting better rankings, but in this case, I'm severly considering it. For example, it's trivial for us to blacklist all the URLs on the MDL immediately (by means of the Network Shield). Will that make avast better for the users? I really doubt that. But it will certainly "make Avast the best against 0-day threats" in the eyes of people like the original poster...
Thanks
Vlk