Free antivirus software for Android to have failed the tests

Many free anti-virus software can not provide sufficiently effective protection of smartphones running the Android platform by introducing thereby user confusion about the safety of their devices.

Tests conducted by the laboratory AV-Test.org, showed that the best free anti-virus for Android, Zoner Antivirus, found 32% of the 160 latest threats. The remaining six free antivirus programs are far behind him, the best of the past has identified only 10% of threats, and one of them has not detected any virus. 

AV-Test.org tested seven free antivirus products downloaded from the Android Market (found for "antivirus"). The most common application is Antivirus Free (Creative Apps), which is used by more than a million users. But that is a fraction of the number of users Lookout Mobile Security and AVG DroidSecurity, 12 and 10 million respectively. AV-Test.org not tested these products because Lookout offers a paid anti-virus software, and DroidSecurity - because of its recently acquired by AVG.

This omission does not mean that the results of tests AV-Test.org comprehensive. But even they are a shocking revelation.

Each free antivirus software was installed on a smartphone running Android, which has been deliberately infected with inactive samples of 150 viruses for Android.

AV-Test.org tested all programs to identify these samples.

AV-Test.org included in the test F-Secure Mobile Security and Kaspersky Mobile Security for comparison. And Kaspersky, and F-Secure have discovered more than 50% of all threats, it is much better than the results of free products.

The second part of the test consisted of deliberate attempts to infect the newly updated device 10 viruses for Android. Products F-Secure and Kaspersky detected and blocked all samples. Zoner Antivirus blocked eight, while the other six free antivirus blocked either one or none. BluePoint AntiVirus Free, Kinetoo Malware Scan and Privateer Lite found only one virus. Antivirus Free by Creative Apps, GuardX Antivirus and LabMSF Antivirus beta test failed completely.

"In general, free products have not shown good results (except one), but the paid applications have shown much better results," - said Andreas Marx, CEO of AV-Test.org. "We are working on a critical article, and will focus its attention on the paid applications."

The full report AV-Test.org to test antivirus Android can be found here.

Kaspersky Lab has released a Internet Security 2012 and Anti-Virus 2012

Kaspersky Lab announced the release of new security packages for home users - Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2012, which support the "cloud" technologies, combining them with traditional anti-virus protection.

As reported on the official site, the main feature of Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 the presence of a special mechanism - when there is a risk of infecting your computer information about the infection is automatically sent to an expert via the Kaspersky Security Network, which quickly react to the threat.

For the first time this feature appeared in the anti-virus products of the previous generation. In addition, similar opportunities exist in product Panda Security (Panda Cloud Antivirus).

What else's new? In Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 added a module to check the reputation of the programs (with the possibility of adding to the database of trusted applications) and website safety module. In addition, from the "cloud" on the computer loading the actual information about threats to information.

More information about Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012

Kaspersky lets out updated Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone

«Kaspersky's lab» declares release of updating for Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone which is called Maintenance Pack 1.

Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone supports platform Android, and also new versions of other mobile operating systems.

Platform Android becomes more and more popular not only among users, but also in corporate sector.

In Android-version Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone all are realized the functions providing safety of the mobile device are necessary.

It not only an antivirus, but also the Anti-thief, protection of the personal data, and also "filter" of calls and sms.

Besides, Maintenance Pack 1 provides support of two new operating systems – BlackBerry 6.0 and Symbian^3, also popular in the corporate environment.

Loss or theft of the smart phone having access to a corporate network, can represent serious threat of information security of the organization. The malefactor can find openings in protection system, or get access to the confidential data stored on the smart phone, and by that to compromise all business of the company.

The updated product urged to protect the smart phones having access to a corporate network, from harmful programs and spam, undesirable calls, hides from extraneous eyes contacts and files, helps to find the device in case of a loss or theft.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone gives the chance to the corporate user to keep confidentiality of the data and to raise probability of return of the device in case of its loss or theft.

Having sent a special sms the manager can remove confidential files or block access to them, define a finding of the device by means of function GPS Find, and also block phone and learn its new number at SIM-card change!

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Comparative testing of antivirus products from AV-Comparatives.org (Summer 2011)

AV-Comparatives regularly holds testing of anti-virus products by two various ways - the test of proactive protection (reveals ability of antiviruses to find out attack of harmful programs) and the test of signature protection (checks as antiviruses use the dictionary of known viruses for detection of new threats).

The test of proactive protection

In comparison with the previous tests executed in November of last year, results of many tested programs have decreased.

In the proactive test of the highest rating (ADVANCED +) have received Avira and Kaspersky.

Rating "ADVANCED" have received - G Data, ESET, Panda, TrustPort, Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, F-Secure, BitDefender, and eScan.

The rating - "STANDART", has earned antivirus Sophos.

Despite decrease in indicators, ability of anti-virus products to detection of harmful programs has hardly decreased.

Testing of complex remedies

Full dynamic test was conducted jointly antivirus AV-Comparatives and the Institute of Innsbruck was supported by the Austrian government. Testing was conducted every day for several months. System under the protection of seventeen antivirus exposed to thousands of malicious URL-addresses. Using the automated procedure that determines whether the antivirus blocking malicious attacks, missed it or have requested user's discretion.

The full report and comparative analysis of results for 2011 will be published in July.

Malicious ads sent through ICQ

Experts from Kaspersky Lab in the past few days have received numerous reports that the fake antivirus Antivirus 8 infects users' computers. Interestingly, the fake antivirus pop-up windows appear when the computer was not used actively. Experts have found that it happened at a time when the program ICQ receive and display new promotional messages.




During the investigation, was established the following:

This page is hosted at [...] charlotterusse.eu. Because the page contains the iframe, it can be assumed that the ad server stores (Charlotte Russe - a clothing store) has been hacked. However, it is not. Furthermore charlotterusse.com, none of the servers whose addresses are contained on this page is not related to this brand of clothing.

This means that someone has created the appearance of the existing store to the system of distribution of advertising is not blocked advertisement, because such systems weed out obviously fraudulent applications. But the most interesting in this case that the attackers to deflect suspicion from himself for distributing malicious software, have created the appearance that their server was hacked. Most likely, a distributor of advertising at this time limited to a warning, so that the fraudsters will have at least one more chance to infect users' computers.

Source: Securelit

Fastest antivirus software 2010

Fastest antivirus software 2010

Russia independent information-analytical center Anti-Malware.ru decided to find out which of the fastest antivirus software. The estimation was made for speed and the consumption of system resources.

Tests gave an entertaining result. Fastest boot the computer, which as a means to combat malware have been installed Avira, Trend Micro, F-Secure and Norton. These programs are only a 10% increase in the standard boot time. And the worst on this indicator were found Sophos and Panda - 60%. On the other hand, the minimum amount of RAM in idle mode consumes Antivirus BitDefender, Kaspersky, Panda and Outpost - they are satisfied with 50 MB of RAM.

No less important was the test that monitors in real time. Unparalleled showed antivirus Avast. Little behind him Antivirus Avira, Norton, BitDefender, Sophos, AVG, Kaspersky Internet Security and Panda. However, we must bear in mind that in reality work Avira, Norton, BitDefender, and Kaspersky Anti-Virus will run faster due to embedded system optimization subsequent audits.

The best on-demand scanning speed showed antivirus Avira. Few gave him Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Norton, BitDefender, F-Secure and Outpost.

After a series of tests, the researchers Malware.ru noted that among the leaders in nominations "the fastest anti-virus monitoring," "fastest virus scanner on demand" and "the fastest anti-virus software to work with office software, most often provided to Avira and BitDefender -- three references. Behind them are Avast, AVG and Norton. Without the "awards" were anti-virus software from Microsoft and Dr.Web. What is the truth, not to say that they are bad, just not very fast.

Fastest antivirus software 2011 (may 2011)

The new test, we measured and compared the parameters that affect how the user perceives the rate of anti-virus programs, namely:

• Time of loading the operating system Windows;
• Size of memory consumption and CPU usage;
• The speed of copying files (on-access antivirus scanner);
• Scan speed (speed of a virus scanner);
• Speed of start of five widespread office programs.  

The received results give a fair idea of speed of the presented anti-virus programs. Having compared this data with results of other tests Anti-Malware.ru, any user can make the realized choice in favor of this or that anti-virus decision.


The fastest antivirus monitors:


Platinum Award: Avira, AVG, ZoneAlarm, Avast, Kaspersky, Eset, Trend Micro, Dr.web
Gold Award: BitDefender, PC tools, Outpost, F-Secure, Norton, Emsisoft
Silver Award: Comodo
Bronze Award: G Data
Unrewarded: Panda, Microsoft, McAfee, VBA32

The fastest virus scanner on demand (on-demand scanner):

Platinum Award: Avira

Gold Award: BitDefender, F-Secure, Norton, G Data, Kaspersky, Outpost
Silver Award: Trend Micro, Eset, Avast
Bronze Award: AVG, ZoneAlarm, Panda, PC Tools, MaAfee, Emsisoft
Unrewarded: Comodo, Microsoft, Dr. Web, VBA32
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Kaspersky has passed Removal-Tests

Kaspersky Lab announced that Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 has successfully passed testing and received the highest marks from the lab AV-Comparatives.

Austrian lab AV-Comparatives has published a report on the results of comparative testing of 16 popular anti-virus solutions, conducted in September 2009 for removal of malware, including Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, ESET NOD 32 Antivirus 4.0, AVG Anti-Virus 8.5, McAffee VirusScan Plus 2009, Avast! Professional Edition 4.8.

To identify the quality of anti-virus have been carefully selected 10 samples of different malicious programs, including such widely spread viruses and Trojans, as NetSky, RJump, Rustock and ZBot.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 has received the highest grade AV-Comparatives, by deleting all used in the testing malware on the infected computer. Not only is Kaspersky Anti-Virus showed decent result, the details you can see in the report.

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Anti-Virus for Mac: Advanced Protection for your Mac

On pages Antivirus Ratings is not the first time referred to Kaspersky Lab. At this time the leading manufacturer of security systems from malicious and unwanted software, hacker attacks and spam, has reported the output of new solutions to protect Macintosh computers from all types of malicious programs.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Macintosh is based on a fundamentally new antivirus engine from Kaspersky Lab, which provides a radical improvement in the scanning speed of the system due to the optimized use of computing resources, in particular, platforms based on dual-and quad processors.

A new product for Mac OS X (version 10.4.11 and above) combines the advantages of the new antivirus engine and an approach based on the protection of home or corporate network from multiplatform (not only inherent to Mac OS X) information threats.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Macintosh not only protects against viruses, worms and trojans for Mac OS X, but also counteracts the same threats to the Windows operating systems and Linux.

With the release of the operating system, Mac OS X, which is considerably simplified the interaction of multiplatform computers, Mac-computers have become an integral part of many corporate networks and home networks. Through such an unprotected machine, both through the open gate, malware can enter any of the computers on the network, the park which can be tens of thousands of pieces within the same organization.

In order to provide greater protection for mixed networks, Kaspersky Lab has provided a new product available to its global anti-virus database, which contains information on more than 20 million malware programs for different computer platforms. Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac gets update antivirus databases every hour, as well as anti-virus products for the family of operating systems, Windows and Unix, which provides real-time protection of users' computers from a number of new malicious programs appearing daily on the Internet.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac checks for Internet downloads and e-mail attachments and different distribution of consumption of computer resources. If user activity is increased, the priority of the anti-virus scanner is reduced, giving the user full access to the computer power and increasing the productivity of user applications.

It should be noted that Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac protects the shared folders of virtual machines, the increasingly popular not only among corporate and home users. Thus preventing the transfer of viruses in the working environment with virtual Windows or Unix, that will be appreciated by people who work with multiple operating systems on a Macintosh.

Knowing that a convenient and attractive interface is very important for Mac-applications, Kaspersky Lab has provided a new product fundamentally new animated interface. It is very easy to use, both for beginners and professionals. Information about protection status and required actions are available to users in a visual and accessible form. The new product is based mode of application in which the program does not bother the user redundant requests independently taking all the decisions.

Additional information can be found on the official site.

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Online antivirus scan

Sometimes there is a need to scan your computer for viruses online. I hope this list will help you:

Kaspersky Online Scanner

checks your computer for malicious code using technology Microsoft ActiveX. Using MS Internet Explorer scanner will check your computer in on-line and provide with the same high level of detection, as well as all products «Kaspersky Labs».

When you first start the program installs its components into the system and automatically update antivirus databases.

Panda ActiveScan

Contains a powerful heuristic system, improve the innovation of technology TruPrevent ™ to detect unknown malware.

Updated at least once a day in order to detect the latest viruses and spyware.
You do not need to install any programs, simply connect to the Internet, and click once, you'll need a second opinion on the safety of your computer.

You can run the Panda ActiveScan even more rapidly. You can set a shortcut to your desktop or browser. Or, if you prefer, you can create a shortcut on the Start menu on your computer.

Symantec Security Check

Weak feature of Symantec Security Check is the fact that he could only crawl, but no cure. Module Security Scan is necessary to identify vulnerabilities.

ESET Online Scanner

Scanner from another well-known manufacturer. ESET Online Scanner uses the same ThreatSense ® technology and signatures as ESET Smart Security / ESET NOD32 Antivirus, and is always up-to-date.

BitDefender Online Scanner

Fully functional antivirus product. Provides all the required elements for a complete view of your computer and effective cleaning: scans memory for your system, all files, folders, boot sector, etc.

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