Tag: anti-malware
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Standalone product test: FireEye Endpoint
FireEye is well known within the security community, both for its advanced protection products and for its regular research reports. Recently, the company launched a new version of its Endpoint Security product and, to demonstrate its commitment to being tested publicly, asked Virus Bulletin to run a short test on it. The product A public…
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Standalone product test: FireEye Endpoint
FireEye is well known within the security community, both for its advanced protection products and for its regular research reports. Recently, the company launched a new version of its Endpoint Security product and, to demonstrate its commitment to being tested publicly, asked Virus Bulletin to run a short test on it. The product A public…
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VB2017 preview: Calling all PUA fighters
While a lot of attention is focused on the fight against advanced malware, a different kind of threat is providing just as big a headache for security companies: that of apps (often free ones) whose behaviours sit right on the limits of what is acceptable from a security point of view. The “better safe than…
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VB2017 preview: Calling all PUA fighters
While a lot of attention is focused on the fight against advanced malware, a different kind of threat is providing just as big a headache for security companies: that of apps (often free ones) whose behaviours sit right on the limits of what is acceptable from a security point of view. The “better safe than…
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Paper: Behavioural Detection and Prevention of Malware on OS X
Though still well behind that of Windows malware, the prevalence of malware targeting OS X has increased in the past year to the point where Mac users can’t assume they are safe just because of the operation system they are using. The question of how to effectively detect new Mac malware is one that is…
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Paper: Behavioural Detection and Prevention of Malware on OS X
Though still well behind that of Windows malware, the prevalence of malware targeting OS X has increased in the past year to the point where Mac users can’t assume they are safe just because of the operation system they are using. The question of how to effectively detect new Mac malware is one that is…
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Back to the future: anti-virus engines and sandboxes
Szilard Stange makes the case for multi-engine malware scanning. The VB2015 conference takes place next month (30 September to 2 October) in Prague, with an exciting programme that covers many of today’s most pertinent security-related topics. In the run-up to the event, we have invited each of the VB2015 sponsors to write a guest post…
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Report: six anti-virus solutions pass annual Linux test
Clean sweep of passes in VB100 test on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 2015 will yet again not be the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’, yet behind the scenes’ Linux plays an important role in many organisations by running the servers on which files are stored centrally. Such servers could easily become centres of malware infection;…
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Low VirusTotal detection rates for new malware, do they matter?
It is not as important as is often suggested — and doesn’t mean the malware is allowed to execute. It is fairly common these days for security researchers to write about new malware attacks and point to low anti-virus detection rates when the affected sample is uploaded to VirusTotal ‘s multi-AV scanning service. But do…
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New VB100 and VBSpam test results published
See which anti-malware and anti-spam solutions achieved certification. Shortly before the Christmas holidays, we published a new VB100 anti-malware test report as well as a new VBSpam test report. VB100 – clean sweep John Hawes and his team put 29 anti-malware solutions through their paces on Windows Server 2008 and, for the first time ever…