Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Tests Show Consumer Antivirus Programs Falling Behind

IDG News Service - The ultimate tests of consumer of antivirus software expelled on Tuesday uncover the products are disappearing in opening as the number of rouge software downloads increases, a direction that does not bode good for consumers.

NSS Labs tested 11 consumer safety suites and found that the products are reduction efficient than a year ago as far as restraint the download and carrying out of rouge software programs. The firm moreover tested if those programs rescued and shut off rouge Web sites.

In its tests, the firm used new rouge Web sites inside of mins of breakthrough in add-on to mint malware, that it contends is demonstrative of the conditions that users would find whilst browsing the Internet.

The download and carrying out restraint rate is to tip conducting product, Trend Micro's Titanium Maximum Security, fell from 96.4 percent to 90.1 percent from the third entertain of 2009 to the same time this year.

Coming in at number two was McAfee's Internet Security at 85.2 percent, followed by F-Secure Internet Security 2010, 80.4 percent; Norman Security Suite, 77.2 percent; Sunbelt VIPRE Antivirus Premium 4, 75.3 percent; Microsoft ( MSFT ) Security Essentials 2, 75 percent; Panda Internet Security 2011, 73.1 percent; Symantec ( SYMC ) Norton Internet Security 2010, 72.3 percent; Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, 71.3 percent; Eset Smart Security 4, 60 percent; and AVG's Internet Security 9, 54.8 percent.

All of the rates were descend solely for two products: McAfee's Internet Security and F-Secure's Internet Security 2010, that upped their showing and restraint rates by 3.6 percent and .4 percent respectively. The greatest tumble occurred for AVG's Internet Security 9, that fell 18.5 percent, and Kaspersky's Internet Security 2011, that fell 16.5 percent, according to NSS Labs.

"Perhaps surprisingly, Microsoft Security Essentials -- a giveaway product -- ranked aloft than half of the contest (paid products), inclusive Symantec's marketplace heading product," according to the report.

But overall, the results emanate a dimmer photo for people's chances of gripping their Personal Computer giveaway of malware. The tested safety products haven't indispensably depressed in quality, but rsther than the threats are elaborating at a hurried pace, mentioned Rick Moy, boss of NSS Labs.

"It is a cat and rodent game," Moy said. "The bad guys in essence are getting smarter. At any since point, the antivirus products have to grasp up."

NSS Labs is an eccentric safety software firm that does not agree to businessman allowance for conducting analogous evaluations. Although it routinely sells its reports, the firm expelled the consumer anti-malware assessment results to the open for free.

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