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Eset, a global security software company providing next-generation malware protection, today announced results from a study conducted by AV-Comparitives.org that confirm Eset’s NOD32 proactively identifies malware faster and more effectively than other antivirus products. Eset outranked all other competitors including McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Kaspersky in overall proactive detection capabilities – by as much as 95%. The AV Comparatives “Retrospective/Proactive Test,” compared 11 different antivirus products’ abilities to proactively identify the increasing complexity and zero-day nature of today’s threats. The independent testing institution AV-Comparatives.org is an antivirus research project coordinated by Andreas Clementi with the support of the Innsbrucker Kompetenzzentrum / Computernotdienst. The stringent testing used recent In-the-Wild samples and a variety of other malware, Trojans, viruses and worms affecting Windows and Other Operating systems. To effectively test the products for proactive detection, the organization used new malware samples received between August and November 2005, and tested them against the products without updating them, so that all were effectively new to any tested product. The results show that Eset’s NOD32 detected 95% more new In-the-Wild threats, backdoors, Trojans and other malware than Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro and Kaspersky. (More details can be found at www.av-comparatives.org). This study, and others like it, emphasize that proactive detection is increasingly important as the threat window becomes smaller. With new threats appearing every day, it’s important that antivirus companies not only provide new updates to identify these threats once they are released, but also are able to detect threats proactively through advanced heuristics. Without proactive heuristic detection, users must wait for updated versions of their antivirus software, creating a critical window of vulnerability that can last hours or even days. Eset’s NOD32 is the only product on the market today that utilizes advanced heuristics technology to proactively catch more than 90 percent of unknown malware. Of the 51 new viruses that have been released in-the-wild in the past three months, NOD32 proactively detected 46 (90 percent) of these before any one was attacked by these threats. Kaspersky's was able to detect only 18 of 51 threats before their customers were at risk, while Norton, McAfee and Trend customers had proactive detection for less than a dozen of these threats that were spreading in-the-wild. "New types of viruses and malware appear everyday, making it imperative that the AV solutions on the market not only provide quick updates but also detect and protect against threats in advance with heuristic techniques," said Andreas Clementi, project manager of AV Comparatives. "In our November independent test looking at proactive detection capabilities, we tested 11 of the world's top AV solutions and once again Eset's NOD32 detected more new malware than any other vendor—providing excellent proactive on-demand detection." “Zero day attacks by definition include new malware, and with so many out there, users need to know that they have a superior level of proactive protection to prevent infection,” said Andrew Lee, CTO of Eset´s American office. “The AV-Comparatives.org test, proves that Eset’s NOD32 continues to provide the best proactive protection on the market.” NOD32 utilizes ThreatSense technology, a sophisticated detection system based on advanced heuristics, to proactively identify previously-unknown malware in real-time. ThreatSense is built into NOD32’s single, unified scanning engine to provide comprehensive protection so users do not need to rely on additional point solutions for spyware and adware protection. Additionally, network and system performance is barely affected for end-users and IT administrators as NOD32 uses less than 20 MB of memory. About Eset Eset, spol. s.r.o. is a company focused on development of software security solutions. Founded in 1992, the company has a purely Slovak ownership background and headquarters located in Bratislava. According to the Technology Fast 500 list compiled by Deloitte & Touche, Eset consistently ranks among the fastest growing companies in the world. ESET is a global distributor of the award-winning next generation antivirus system NOD32. The company has affiliates in the USA and the Czech Republic and distributors in more than 80 countries around the world. More information at http://www.eset.sk/en/company/eset |
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