Trend Micro scored well above its competition in new, antivirus test results that gauged whether an antivirus product can block malware you're tricked into downloading.
The unsponsored test of socially engineered malware protection from NSS Labs used just-collected URLs of malicious sites and downloads. The sites used social engineering lures, such as claims that visitors need to download a fake video codecs to watch a movie, to trick potential victims into downloading the malware.
According to NSS Labs president Rick Moy, these results indicate that Trend Micro stopped 91 percent of downloads by either blocking the URL prior to downloading the file, or recognizing the file as malicious after it was downloaded, but before it was executed/double-clicked. Trend recognized as malicious and stopped an additional 5.5 percent of malware after it was executed but before it could install, for a total block rate of 96.4 percent. Kaspersky came in second with an 87.8 percent overall success rate.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/172330/
The unsponsored test of socially engineered malware protection from NSS Labs used just-collected URLs of malicious sites and downloads. The sites used social engineering lures, such as claims that visitors need to download a fake video codecs to watch a movie, to trick potential victims into downloading the malware.
According to NSS Labs president Rick Moy, these results indicate that Trend Micro stopped 91 percent of downloads by either blocking the URL prior to downloading the file, or recognizing the file as malicious after it was downloaded, but before it was executed/double-clicked. Trend recognized as malicious and stopped an additional 5.5 percent of malware after it was executed but before it could install, for a total block rate of 96.4 percent. Kaspersky came in second with an 87.8 percent overall success rate.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/172330/