Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer
of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky
Anti-Virus 2010 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations
Release 2 have received the prestigious VB100 award following testing
conducted on a Windows 7 platform.
A total of 43 antivirus products, including solutions from the
leading vendors, participated in comparative testing conducted by the
authoritative British magazine Virus Bulletin. Testing took place in
November 2009 and was conducted on a platform running Windows 7. In
order to successfully pass the test the solutions had to detect 100% of
the malicious programs from a WildList collection as well as a
collection of worms/bots and polymorphic viruses. The solutions also
had to avoid generating any false positives when scanning a collection
of clean files. The collections included the latest types of IT threats
such as several variants of the widespread Kido (Conficker) worm,
programs designed to steal passwords for online games as well as
programs distributed via social networking sites. Kaspersky Anti-Virus
2010 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations Release 2
both passed the tests with flying colors and were awarded the VB100
logo.
The Kaspersky Lab solutions also demonstrated high performance
levels when detecting Trojan programs in on-demand scanning mode and
reactive and proactive protection modes, although the results from
these categories did not count towards the VB100 award.
"Kaspersky’s latest consumer offering is as glossy and shiny a beast
as ever" was Virus Bulletin’s verdict on Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010.
According to the magazine’s experts, installation and getting the hang
of the new-look interface does not take long and the user is offered a
wide choice of options for fine-tuning settings. In addition, Kaspersky
Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations Release 2 integrates a "wealth
of configuration options" and provides a user experience that is
"extremely smooth and trouble free".
Kaspersky Lab solutions are regular participants in the VB tests,
demonstrating excellent results. In 2009, the company’s products
received awards in all six comparative tests conducted on various
platforms.
