Gorinchem, 5 december 2007 – Volgens onderzoek van AVIEWS, the Anti-Virus Information & Early Warning System, is Sophos beter in het proactief beschermen tegen onbekende malware aanvallen, vergeleken met McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec en bijna 30 andere anti-malware producten.
"De meeste testen van antivirus beoordelen alleen de detectie van bekende malware, terwijl het proactief detecteren en blokkeren van nog onbekende malware steeds belangrijker wordt,” aldus Marnix van Meer directeur Sophos Benelux, “De techniek hiervoor zijn we een paar jaar geleden gaan ontwikkelen en dat werpt nu zijn vruchten af. We scoren beduidend beter dan andere aanbieders en zullen onze techniek voortdurend verder blijven perfectioneren.”
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Sophos Benelux
Marnix van Meer
Tel: +31 655700255
m.vanmeer(at)sophosbenelux.com
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Elke De Ridder
Tel: +32 2 267 41 60
Ederidder(at)creative-strategies.be
PROACTIVE DETECTION OF UNKNOWN MALWARE: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE TERRIBLE, SOPHOS REPORTS
Sophos provides best proactive defence against unknown threats, but some products perform poorly IT security and control firm Sophos has been found to be superior to McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec and almost 30 other anti-malware products in proactively protecting against unknown malware attacks, according to data collected by AVIEWS, the Anti-Virus Information & Early Warning System.
AVIEWS is an online community that shares information about breaking malware threats between anti-malware vendors, researchers, security experts, and system administrators. Over a four month period, Sophos detected and blocked more new unknown malware reported to the independent AVIEWS mailing list than any other vendor, proactively detecting and protecting against 80 percent, compared to 50 percent for Microsoft, 35 percent for Symantec and 30 percent for McAfee.
Some anti-virus products failed to find any of the unknown malware during the four month testing period, leaving customers at considerable risk of infection.
Sophos recommends companies protect themselves with a consolidated solution which can control network access and proactively defend against the threats of spam, hackers, spyware and viruses.
More information about the detection rates of the 32 different anti-malware products, and the methodology used, can be found on the SophosLabs blog:
www.sophos.com/security/blog/2007/12/825.html.