NOD32 Secures 51st VB100 Award for Unprecedented Malware Detection
Detects 100 Percent of Worms, Bots and "In-the-Wild" Viruses, with Zero False Positives
SAN DIEGO - August 4, 2008 - ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, today announced it has captured a record 51st VB100 award from Virus Bulletin, a widely-respected independent comparative testing group. ESET is the only company with more than 50 VB100 awards and continues to lead the industry with the highest detection rates with no false positives — the winning formula in malware prevention.
Virus Bulletin introduced its first VB100 award in 1998, and conducts several comparatives every year, rotating its platforms between Linux, Windows, Windows servers and Novell Netware. In order to display the VB100 logo, an antivirus product must meet two criteria: (1) Demonstrate it detects all "In-the-Wild" viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning; and, (2) Generate no false positives when scanning a set of clean files. Since the inception of VB100 awards in 1998, ESET's antivirus products continue to boast a success rate of over 96 percent — the industry's highest. Most antivirus vendors have success ratios in the 50 - 75 percent range.
"With a splendid depth of options available in the advanced pages, testing powered through in excellent time," said John Hawes, Virus Bulletin. "Detection rates were near-perfect, and false positives absent, thus another VB100 award is added to ESET's record tally."
ESET is powered by ThreatSense® technology, an advanced heuristics engine that enables proactive detection of malware not covered by even the most frequently updated signature-based products. Unlike traditional approaches, ESET solutions decode and analyze executable code in real-time, using an emulated environment. By allowing malware to execute in a secure virtual world, ESET is able to clearly differentiate between benign files and even the most sophisticated and cleverly-disguised malware.
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