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Free Outpost reached excellent results (2010/12/21 13:00)
It has been a while but the free version of Outpost is back on top. We have tested the very new Outpost Security Suite Free, which replaces the older Outpost Firewall Free, and its results belong among the best we have seen in Proactive Security Challenge. Congratulations!
Proactive Security Challenge vs. real malware (2010/11/01 09:00)
Proactive Security Challenge is a project devoted mostly to testing abilities of security software to protect against actions of malware. Currently, Proactive Security Challenge consists of 148 different tests. Sometimes we hear people arguing that the techniques used in our tests do not correspond with techniques used by the real malware. In order to find out how much Proactive Security Challenge reflects the real world of malware, we have performed the following research.
We have collected a set of 20 malware samples that were not detected by two popular anti-virus engines. This means that downloading these samples to the computer and executing them would be possible even with a fully updated anti-virus installed. Then we have run the samples and analyzed the techniques they used. The results are as follows.
Online Armor temporarily disqualified (2010/09/07 07:28)
Different Internet Experience Ltd. has established number of business connections on the field of Windows security. Our clients and partners, vendors of the market leading security products, benefit from our testing and research services. Many of their products implement the technology that was designed, developed or tested in our labs.
One of our business connections, partnership with Tall Emu Pty Ltd, the original vendor of Online Armor, has been ended recently. Our break-up did not go well. Our company raised claims against Tall Emu Pty Ltd closely related to Online Armor products that have not been satisfied and hence the whole dispute will probably take a long time to solve. In order to protect our company we are forced to temporarily disqualify Online Armor products from our projects. Online Armor will be returned as soon as the dispute is solved or when there is a significant move in the case that is likely to solve the case in a short period of time. We apologize to our visitors for any inconvenience.
Transfering to new servers (2010/08/16 17:50)
Due to a great increase in the traffic to our websites, we have to transfer our projects to a new hosting. During the next few days our websites may be unavailable from time to time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for understanding and patience.
Outpost 7 to join excellent products (2010/06/29 14:28)
Outpost Security Suite Pro 7 has been tested in Proactive Security Challenge and reached the fourth place with the Excellent 97% score. Comodo Internet Security, Online Solutions Security Suite and Online Armor Premium still remain the top 3 products in our challenge.
Online Armor Premium and Online Solutions Security Suite (2010/05/23 11:56)
Our visitors have sent us many requests to test Online Armor Premium against the latest set of tests and also Online Solutions Security Suite, a new security suite on the market. If you are interested how these two performed, check out the latest news and results of Proactive Security Challenge!
KHOBE – 8.0 earthquake for Windows desktop security software (2010/05/05 09:00)
In September 2007, we have published an article about a great disease that affected tens of Windows security products. The article called Plague in (security) software drivers revealed awful quality of kernel mode drivers installed by all the major desktop security products for Windows. The revealed problems could cause random system crashes, freezes and in some cases more severe security issues.
Today, we reveal even more serious problem of the Windows desktop security products that can be exploited to bypass a big portion of security features implemented by the affected products. The protection implemented by kernel mode drivers of today's security products can be bypassed effectively by a code running on an unprivileged user account. If you ever heard of SSDT hooks or similar techniques to implement various security features such as products' self-defense, we will show you how to bypass the protection easily.
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Comodo Internet Security perfect again! (2010/05/01 16:10)
Many of our visitors were eager about results of Comodo Internet Security against the latest set of tests in Proactive Security Challenge. And finally, the results are here! Comodo Internet Security goes on the top again with the perfect result. Congratulations!
New leader (2010/03/30 17:10)
During the last weeks we have tested five more products: Jetico Personal Firewall, BitDefender Internet Security, Kaspersky Internet Security and most recently also Online Armor Free and Trend Micro Internet Security Pro. Among these products only Kaspersky Internet Security and Online Armor Free have been awarded with Proactive Security Challenge awards. Online Armor Free is the first product that reached the Excellent level of protection after the last improvement of the testing suite. Congratulations!
PSC Awards, Malware Defender receives first one (2010/03/04 18:29)
We are introducing Proactive Security Challenge Awards. Every product tested against the full set of 148 tests that reaches at least Very good protection level will receive a Proactive Security Challenge Award. The vendor of such a product may request for the PSC Award logo that can be placed on the product's web page or printed on its box.
We have also retested two products in Proactive Security Challenge, namely Malware Defender and McAfee Internet Security. Malware Defender has become the first product that received Proactive Security Challenge Award. Check out the latest results!