[UPDATE: 2018-02-01]
#Spectre
&
#Meltdown
: So far, the AV-TEST Institute discovered 139 samples which appear to be related to recently reported CPU vulnerabilities.
#CVE
-2017-5715
#CVE
-2017-5753
#CVE
-2017-5754
SHA256 Hashes:
Congratulations to
@ESET
for receiving the 100th AV-TEST Certificate! Holger Suhl, Country Manager of
@ESET_de
, personally received the certificate from Andreas Marx, CEO of AV-TEST.
Congratulations to
@symantec
@NortonOnline
for being awarded BEST PROTECTION 2017 for Norton Security, and the corporate solutions Endpoint Protection and Endpoint Protection Cloud. Symantec also receives the BEST ANDROID SECURITY 2017.
VPN Comparative Test:
AV-TEST has - for the first time - taken an extensive look at VPN products. 12 VPN solutions have been investigated in detail. Note: This test was commissioned by AnchorFree and performed by AV-TEST GmbH.
The best Windows antivirus software for home users:
During November and December 2021 we continuously evaluated 20 home user security products using their default settings...
#antivirus
#security
#software
#test
#infosec
AV-TEST congratulates F-Secure on reaching the 100th Certificate! F-Secure solutions have won the AV-TEST Award "Best Protection" in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016.
@FSecure
@FsecureBusiness
Congratulations to
@Sophos
&
@SophosLabs
for receiving the 100th AV-TEST Certificate! AV-TEST evaluates and certifies Sophos products regularly in the areas of Protection, Performance and Usability.
AV-TEST has large databases with billions of clean and malware samples and in some cases, we see that different files are generating an identical cryptographic hash (a so-called hash collision). So far, we identified 35 MD5 and 9 SHA1 hashes. [1/2]
#Spectre
&
#Meltdown
: So far, the AV-TEST Institute discovered 77 samples which appear to be related to recently reported CPU vulnerabilities.
#CVE
-2017-5715
#CVE
-2017-5753
#CVE
-2017-5754
Our congratulations to
@kaspersky
for receiving 6 AV-TEST Awards 2019 for their products "Internet Security", "Endpoint Security", "Small Office Security" and "Virus Removal Tool!
[UPDATE: 2018-01-23]
#Spectre
&
#Meltdown
: So far, the AV-TEST Institute discovered 119 samples which appear to be related to recently reported CPU vulnerabilities.
#CVE
-2017-5715
#CVE
-2017-5753
#CVE
-2017-5754
SHA256 Hashes:
Congratulations to
@kaspersky
for being honored with the AV-TEST AWARD 2017 in the categories BEST PERFORMANCE 2017 for Home User and Corporate User, BEST USABILITY 2017 for Home User and Corporate User, also in the section BEST REPAIR 2017.
Congratulations to
@Bitdefender
for receiving the AV-TEST AWARD 2017 in the categories BEST PROTECTION 2017 for Home and Corporate User, BEST PERFORMANCE 2017 for Home and Corporate User, BEST REPAIR 2017, as well as for the BEST ANDROID SECURITY 2017.
Advanced Endpoint Protection: Fileless Threats Protection Test.
Fileless threats are a growing trend which makes efficient protection a challenge for all endpoint protection products. This test was commissioned by Kaspersky and performed by AV-TEST GmbH.
Advanced Endpoint Protection: Ransomware Protection test.
Security solutions like to say they repel ransomware, how good are they when it comes to protecting business assets? This test was commissioned by
@kaspersky
and performed by AV-TEST.
12 Antivirus Solutions for MacOS Sierra Put to the Test: The laboratory experts at AV-TEST examined 12 MacOS solutions in terms of their protection, performance and usability. Many of the packages demonstrated their quality and reliability.
With AV-ATLAS, the AV-TEST Institute launches its new Threat Intelligence Platform and provides comprehensive access to real-time analyzes of the current IT threat situation.
Season’s Greetings: A Merry Christmas and a successful and healthy start into the New Year to all our customers, partners and newsletter readers from the entire AV-TEST team.