London, 24th June 2011:
BullGuard has received yet another independent labs award for its AntiVirus 10, this time from the Virus Bulletin team. With an overall score of 9 out of 10, BullGuard receives the VB100 award supported by positive feedback such as; fast scanning times, no stability problems and no reboot on install.
Virus Bulletin is the leading specialist publication in the field of malware and spam and has for many years carried out independent comparative testing of anti-virus products. The unique VB100 certification scheme is widely recognised within the industry as it tests all products free of charge and does not allow re-testing - performances are reported exactly as they are found. The testing platform this month was Windows Server R2, the latest server platform from Microsoft and 43 security products were put through their paces.
BullGuard Results:
ItW 100.00%
Polymorphic 100.00%
ItW (o/a) 100.00%
Trojans 99.00%
Worms & bots 99.78%
False positives 0
BullGuard was most pleased with the RAP (reactive and proactive) quadrant results where it managed a top 3 result of 97.7% out shining 40 products currently available to buy on the market.
John Hawes, Virus Bulletin commented on BullGuard’s results: “Detection rates were uniformly excellent, with stunning coverage of the RAP sets, and the core certification sets were handled admirably too. BullGuard thus comfortably earns a VB100 award, its history showing only sporadic entries but solid pass rates, with three passes from three entries in the last year, five from five entries in the last dozen tests.”
Claus Villumsen, CTO, BullGuard commented: “Of course we’re thrilled that we have now found a good balance between security and convenience. The test results show improvement in our impact on the system performance. Historically our performance results have not been the best because whenever we have had to make a choice between security and convenience, we have always put security first. Naturally we’ve continuously worked towards improving resource consumption, and this work now seems to be paying off.”
BullGuard has developed a carefully established, maximum security environment in its Antivirus 10, with an innovative architecture based on layered defences, including a multitude of different technologies such as web scanning, behaviour-based blocking and traditional signature detection tools. BullGuard’s unique way of combining the different technologies guarantees that any malicious code which gets through one layer, will be caught by the next. BullGuard has added behavioural detection technology as a component to traditional signature based and heuristic virus detection - the methods that most of its competitors are still basing their detection on, and the VB100 results demonstrates that this makes good sense.
“To understand BullGuard’s Dynamic Detection Testing results better, it is perhaps worth explaining the difference between heuristic detection and BullGuard’s unique behavioural detection: While the heuristic detection technology - which some of our competitors see as the future of the security industry – is the ability to detect mutations of already known viruses based on traditional signature detection, Behavioural Detection is an altogether different technology: the engine identifies viruses long before traditional virus detection – heuristics or not - based on the behaviour of the virus. Consequently, instead of merely catching viruses once they’ve made their way to the virus signature database, Behavioural Detection identifies viruses which behave abnormally based on file, registry, process, and network events on the computer and shuts them off,” explained Claus Villumsen.
The VB100 comparative review on Windows Server 2008 R2 from Virus Bulletin was published in June2011 at http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/index.
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