14 DAY TRIAL // There are a lot of antivirus technologies out there, most of them sustaining that their features are the best on the market and more efficient than the rivals'. Some say Kaspersky is the best, others think McAfee is better, while numerous users choose Norton Antivirus as the leader. A recent study published by security company Sophos revealed that it discovered "more new unknown malware reported to the independent AVIEWS mailing list in a four month period than any other vendor," as it is mentioned in a press release published on its website.
"Most anti-virus reviews only examine products' ability to detect known malware, rather than determining who does the best job at protecting proactively against zero-day threats and unknown viruses. It's becoming more and more important to have an industrial strength defense against both known and unknown malware as virus writers and hackers step up their attempts to steal money and identities with targeted attacks," said Guy Edsall, product manager at Sophos.
"We're obviously delighted to find that we provide a higher level of protection against unknown malware than our competitors - but we won't be resting on our laurels, and customers can expect to see us continuing to work hard to enhance our detection of unknown threats even further", he added.
The second position was won by Kaspersky, which managed to discover 65 percent of the new threats while Ikarus, a pretty anonymous technology, came in the third, with 60 percent. ESET's NOD32 version 2 spotted only 50 percent of the malware, the same percentage as Microsoft, F-Secure and AVG. Symantec, one of the leaders when it comes to antivirus capabilities, received only 35 points, while Avast, the creators of the freeware antivirus, detected a disappointing 25 percent of the threats.
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