The anti-malware solutions from Panda Security offered the most effective proactive protection in a study carried out by the prestigious AV-Test.org (http://www.av-test.org/) organization. The study tested a number of security solutions from a range of vendors against threats from the “In-The-Wild” list, during July, August and September 2007. The detection rates were measured using the recommended settings for the e-mail and web protection of the products (as the infiltration vector for most malware is the internet).
Panda Security solutions proactively detected 91% of threats. This was way above the percentages recorded by companies such as Sophos (86%), Kaspersky (69%), Trend Micro (68%), F-Secure (67%), Symantec (66%), McAfee (55%) or Microsoft (48%).
“It is important to bear in mind that this analysis only evaluated heuristic and signature-based technologies. Panda Security products actually include additional pro-active protection layers such as HIPS and a behavioral analysis module. This further increases the protection that we offer our clients”, confirms Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.
Similarly, and according to the same study, PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory, is once again confirmed as one of the fastest in the industry in providing protection against new threats through virus signature files. It is able to provide updates to its clients considerably quicker than its most direct competitors.
More information about the study is available at the AV-Test.org website, at: http://www.av-test.org/