Kaspersky Lab announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 has demonstrated exceptionally high levels of protection in testing carried out by the respected German laboratory AV-Test as part of their Real World trial.
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 has demonstrated exceptionally high levels of protection in testing carried out by the respected German laboratory AV-Test as part of their Real World trial.
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 was subjected to real-life conditions using the latest malware in accordance with a custom methodology developed especially for the purpose by AV-Test.
The trial included 12 popular Internet security solutions from different vendors. Each solution was subjected to approximately 10 new pieces of ‘zero-day' malware every 24 hours, (i.e., malware that had only just appeared on the Internet) over a 60-day test period. The full set of malicious software used for testing comprised some 600 active samples, including exploits and malware distributed by email.
The solutions were permitted to apply their full range of protective technologies, including filtration of blacklisted URLs and applications, behavioral analysis, signature-based detection etc. It should be noted that traditionally, when analyzing an antivirus solution's performance only one type of protective technology is used, such as signature-based scanning (reactive protection) or proactive protection modules.
The effectiveness of the protection offered was assessed according to two categories: 'Malware Detection' and ‘Malware Blocking'. The criteria applied included malware detection rates, the degree to which the destructive activity of the malware was blocked and the number of false positives recorded against a collection of harmless programs.
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 achieved a high score in the Real World test, coming second in the ‘Malware Detection' category (97.5%) and third in the 'Malware Blocking' category (89.8%) and recording very few false positives.
“Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 achieved excellent results in the Real World test because it takes advantage of a unique synergy of technologies that effectively complement and enhance each other,” said Director of Anti-Malware Research Nikita Shvetsov. “We believe that the near future of antivirus solution testing lies with tests which analyze, in real-life conditions, the effectiveness of the entire integrated set of technologies included in each product and which model user behavior. Today, with tens of thousands of new malicious programs appearing on the Internet every day, only such tests are capable of demonstrating the real level of user protection. This is why we fully support the AV-Test laboratory which develops and implements innovative methods of dynamic testing.”
