Award for detecting all the in-the-wild viruses without false alarming, Sophos outperformed all big names
MUMBAI / BANGALORE, India – December 15, 2009 – The latest edition of Virus Bulletin magazine has described its recently published investigation of 43 anti-virus products on the Windows 7 platform their "biggest month of testing ever", producing an exhaustive 27 page report examining the detection abilities of different security solutions.
Not only does the December 2009 edition of Virus Bulletin award Sophos Endpoint Security the prestigious VB100 award for detecting all the in-the-wild viruses without false alarming, but Sophos also achieved a perfect 100% score against worms, bots and polymorphic malware. This meant that Sophos outperformed a number of other products which failed to detect 100% of the viruses in the wild.
Even more impressive, from Sophos' point of view, was Sophos' performance in Virus Bulletin's RAP ("Reactive and Proactive") test, helping users form a better impression of the heuristic and generic proactive detection capability of security software - in particular how well products perform against malware that appears after vendors have submitted their products to Virus Bulletin for testing.
Yes, that's right - this was the malware which emerged once Virus Bulletin had our software and had frozen its ability to update itself. In other words, Virus Bulletin was testing each product's ability to proactively detect unknown malware.
In this test, harder than any other, Sophos achieved a higher ranking than any other product tested with 73.2%.
Virus Bulletin commented on Sophos's performance:
"Detection rates were particularly good in the RAP sets where some excellent figures were noted, especially in the proactive set; we observed enormous numbers of detections being covered by a relatively tiny number of unique identities, so it seems like Sophos’s focus on generic coverage is paying dividends."
As a comparison, McAfee and Symantec scored 53.98% and 17.66% respectively in that same proactive test.
This is the 49th time Sophos has won the VB100 award from the independent testers at Virus Bulletin for its protection capabilities. You can find full details of the review in the December 2009 edition of Virus Bulletin magazine. The summary of the same can be read here.
“Sophos has invested 25 years in content and context scanning, and has gained the technological leadership position” said Altaf Halde, Country Director - India at Sophos. “We know it’s hard to balance user productivity with risk mitigation—that’s why we’ve dedicated our business to simplifying security, making it easier for you to use and roll out.”
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More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use, and that deliver the industry’s lowest TCO. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs—a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, UK and Boston, US. More information is available at www.sophos.com
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