ESET Bags “VB100” Award from Virus Bulletin

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ESET, one of the leaders in proactive protection against cyber-threats, has again been awarded the prestigious “VB100” award from Virus Bulletin – UK’s independent testing antivirus authority.  The latest award is ESET’s 71st, adding to its long track record of great results in this testing. ESET NOD32 Antivirus holds the world record of VB100 Awards of all security solution vendors.

Virus Bulletin tested platform was Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, the number of tested products: 54, passes: 33, fails: 21. According to VB report, some well-known paid and free AV brands failed missing viruses In-the-Wild (ITW) and FP (false positive detection).
 
In-the-Wild viruses are real viruses in active circulation (as oppose to already known viruses) that have been reported to WildList Organization, a collaborative group of anti-malware experts, by at least two independent reporters. ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the only solution in the world, according to VB100 tests, that has never missed an In-the-Wild virus since the inception of testing in May 1998.

“Looking to continue an epic run of success into our new testing format, ESET’s product came as a petite 52MB package including all required updates. Set-up was straightforward and fairly quick, and online updates were fast and easy too, with most installs completing in under five minutes. The GUI is very slick and attractive – a little more angular than expected, but still pleasant to look at and easy to use, with some improvements to the layout making the in-depth configuration easier to work with. Testing ran through simply, with good initial speeds and much faster speeds in the warm runs,” said an official Virus Bulletin comment to the testing results.

“Light overheads were recorded, with slightly higher than average RAM use but reasonable use of CPU cycles and average impact on our set of tasks. Detection rates were solid, dropping off slightly in the proactive week of the RAP sets but maintaining a good level throughout the Response tests. The core sets were handled impeccably, comfortably earning ESET another VB100 award and continuing the vendor’s unbroken run of passes. ESET’s record cannot be faulted, with 12 passes in the last two years. Testing this month was interrupted by a single interface crash under heavy pressure, but protection was not affected and simply reopening the GUI proved sufficient to get things moving along again. All tests completed in well under the allotted two days,” the statement added.

Recently ESET has secured its fourth “Advanced+” award in performance testing from another independent testing antivirus authority, AV-Comparatives. ESET was recognized on the top of the list of 20 antivirus brands as the product with the least footprint on the system. The latest test measured the impact on system performance of 20 antivirus products.

ESET's industry-leading products, including the popular NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Smart Security, ESET Cybersecurity for Mac and ESET Mobile Security, deliver significant improvements over traditional solutions in the marketplace today. Using ESET’s advanced ThreatSense smart-scanning technology, ESET proactively protects from new attacks and eliminates both known and unknown viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, rootkits and other Internet threats.