eScan Anti-Virus 11.0 was awarded "AV-Comparatives Advanced +"

Anti-Virus eScan Anti-Virus 11.0 is once again confirmed the high level of malware detection and demonstrated the minimum number of false-positives. In mid-April 2012 an independent laboratory AV-Comparatives has published the results of comparative testing of antivirus products to detect malicious software by scanning on demand, including the identification of false-positives. eScan Anti-Virus 11.0 showed a high level of threat detection - 98.5% and the minimum number of false positives - 11.

Value for the detection / false positive response eScan Anti-Virus 11.0 was one of the best. At the end of the test product is deservedly received the award "AV-Comparatives Advanced +". Recall that the eScan Anti-Virus 11.0 is an innovative development company MicroWorld Technologies, was among the leaders of the report «AV-Comparatives in March 2012", ahead of many popular today in the market anti-virus solutions.

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.