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Virus Bulletin introduced its first VB100 award in 1998, and conducts several comparatives every year, rotating its platforms between Linux, Windows, Windows servers and Novell Netware. In order to display the VB100 logo, an antivirus product must meet two criteria:
- Demonstrate it detects all "In-the-Wild" viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning; and,
- Generate no false positives when scanning a set of clean files.
Since the introduction of VB100 awards in 1998, ESET antivirus products continue to boast a success rate of over 96 percent - the industry's highest. Most antivirus vendors have success ratios in the 50 - 75 percent range.
" ESET NOD32 has long been a top performer in the VB100 and still holds the record for the largest number of certifications earned with the product encountering no problems meeting the requirements for VB100 certification, ESET adds another award to its sizeable collection."
said John Hawes, Virus Bulletin.
ESET is powered by ThreatSense® technology, an advanced heuristics engine that enables proactive detection of malware not covered by even the most frequently updated signature-based products. Unlike traditional approaches, ESET solutions decode and analyse executable code in real-time, using an emulated environment. By allowing malware to execute in a secure virtual world, ESET is able to clearly differentiate between benign files and even the most sophisticated and cleverly-disguised malware.
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