VB2010 - Vancouver

VB2010 took place 29 September to 1 October 2010 at the Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, Canada.

VB2010 was sponsored by the following organizations:

Platinum sponsors

K7 Computing

"Headquartered in Chennai, India, K7 Computing is a pioneer in anti-virus research and product development. Founded in 1991, the company has a long history in the Indian anti-virus market and since that time K7 Computing has grown steadily to become a local company with global reach.

Today, K7 Computing, with its characteristic compact engineering and swift response to evolving consumer expectations, has made inroads into numerous international markets with its flagship product K7TotalSecurity, which is one of the top selling products in the Japanese market.

Recently K7 Computing continued an enviable track record of product innovation with the release of a secure interface for financial transactions known as K7SecureWeb. These products, along with its innovative line of cloud computing solutions, have contributed to K7 Computing being named Tamil Nadu Exporter of the Year in 2010, along with other prestigious awards."

ESET

"A pioneer in proactive threat detection, ESET is an industry leader that delivers instant, comprehensive protection against evolving computer security threats. The flagship product, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, has not missed an 'In-the-Wild' virus in independent tests for over a decade and consistently is a top performer in comparative testing.

Founded in 1992, ESET has headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, with branch offices in Prague, Czech Republic, San Diego, USA and Buenos Aires, Argentina. ESET's solutions are available in more than 160 countries worldwide. In 2008, ESET opened a development center in Krakow, Poland, and will soon open its new office in Singapore. Since 2002, when ESET was first ranked by Deloitte Technology Fast 500, it has consistently placed among the fastest growing companies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and has been acknowledged for its exponential growth in North America.

ThreatSense.NET technology provides ESET with the means to collect infiltration data from our 100 million users worldwide, empowering its virus lab to react promptly to emerging threats. According to independent testing organization AV-Comparatives, NOD32 was declared the best anti-virus product globally in 2006 and 2007. ESET consistently surpasses other anti-malware solutions in detection and holds a record 62 VB100 awards.

With an emphasis on lightweight, powerful design, ESET continues to fine-tune its solutions by utilizing advanced technologies pioneered by their research and development departments. ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the ideal combination of proactive protection and lightweight, signature-based detection. The product of an intense study of the manner by which malicious code evolves, the scanning core just doesn't passively look for existing variants - it actively detects unknown strains and sandboxes new executables in an emulated environment where they can do no harm.

Innovating for their growing user bases, ESET is poised to unveil its NOD32 Antivirus for Mac and Linux desktop solutions in 2010. With issues like regulatory compliance and multiplatform environments at the forefront, ESET's latest product provides a powerful shield against threats targeting these growing environments as well as platform-agnostic malware. For clients running both Windows and Mac OS X in virtual environments, ESET offers fast, light, proactive, cross-platform detection.

For the end-user, NOD32 runs only two processes - the scanning kernel and the graphical interface - which, when combined, use just 44 MB of RAM (on average). For business networks, ESET NOD32 delivers comprehensive protection - working natively in Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Server editions; Linux / BSD / Solaris; Mail Server; Exchange and Mac OS X. ESET Remote Administrator, the company's management console, makes vast multiplatform protection flexible and simple. With push-install preconfigured NOD32 packages to client computers and manage parametric groups with Active Directory remote management scales easily for networks of 10 machines or 100,000.

For laptop users connecting to Wi-Fi hotspots and home users who demand firewall protection and anti-spam scanning, ESET Smart Security is the all-in-one security suite that ensures a fast and safe Internet experience. Smart Security combines NOD32's scanning core with additional anti-spam and personal firewall features to keep users protected from unwanted mail scams and hacker attacks while maintaining ESET's hallmark light footprint and low false-positive rates."

avast!

"AVAST Software makes the world's most popular computer security program - avast! antivirus. With over 120 million registered users, avast! protects one out of every five private computers around the globe. You can find avast! protecting computers from the Norwegian Svalbard Islands down to Antarctica.

We believe in community and that is what has makes us a global company.

Community helps us provide the best protection where the threats are the greatest - the Internet. The vast majority of new computer infections, 85%, are now from hijacked or infected websites. CommunityIQ, an opt-in group of avast! users, is at the core of our defence. CommunityIQ members send our virus lab around one billion reports a month on threats and infected websites from their actual online experiences. This gives us a global "cloud" of sensors able to identify new malware variants in record time. And that is just the beginning. An overlapping system of protective shields and technologies within the avast! program enable malware to be caught at the outer perimeter - before it actually enters your computer.

Comparative independent tests prove our avast! Free Antivirus meets or exceeds the performance standards of most paid antivirus products - and it is free. That's not our opinion, just read the reviews in CHIP.de, Federal Computer Week, and Virus Bulletin. The antivirus engine, the key component in our software, provides equal protection against viruses and malware for all avast! product variants. We simply will not put a stripped-down antivirus product on the market at any price.

We have been giving away avast! to home users for nearly 20 years. This has resulted in a dedicated community of users that helps us test new products, assists newcomers at the user forums, and tells their friends about us. A phenomenal 68% of our new users come through the recommendation of a friend. As a result of this community support, our user base jumped to over 120 million during 2010.

Safety starts at home, especially with a computer. We believe that people are better protected against malware when their antivirus program is in their native language. With help from our user community, avast! has been localized into over 30 languages and even adjusted for the sight impaired. Protection against malware is a basic need, not a luxury, and we are providing it in an expanding list of local languages.

Today's AVAST Software began as a partnership between two Czech scientists in 1988. We were one of the first on the market with a Windows antivirus program, launching it in 1995. Currently, the avast! 5.0 portfolio includes Free Antivirus, Pro Antivirus for customized protection, and the premium Internet Security with its no-hassle Silent Firewall. Our larger corporate customers are protected by a centrally administered version of avast!. Wherever you are, be free with avast!"

Gold sponsors

MX Tools

"MXTools - Internet Reputation Data Experts:

MXTools provides Internet Reputation Data - the industry's most well respected, most widely used and most effective. The data provided represents the leading expertise and innovation from the foremost independent technical organizations; delivering the most effective and accurate reputation data available. Used by over 2.0 Billion users worldwide.

Reputation Datafeeds provided -

Spamhaus is an international spam monitoring and spam blocking service that identifies and blocks email messages and IP addresses from known spam sources. Spamhaus maintains three lists with the IP addresses of known or suspected spammers. Spamhaus currently protects over 1.5Billion email users worldwide.

  • SBL, Spamhaus Block List, contains IP addresses that are controlled by known spammers.
  • XBL, Exploits Block List, contains IP addresses of virus-compromised computers that are sending spam.
  • PBL, Policy Block List, contains IP addresses that should not be delivering unauthenticated SMTP email.

SURBL provides reputation data about websites that appear in unsolicited messages to the world's leading webmail providers, mail filter and security vendors, ISPs and organizations of all types large through small.

SURBL data are used to help evaluate website reputation in commercial and open source mail filters, security appliances, and a wide range of mail and web applications and systems.

Server Authority Name Server Reputation services provide you with a data feed of name server hosts that serve millions of 'not yet used' miscreant owned domains.

PRE-EMPTIVELY BLOCK MORE:- Malware - Phishing - FastFlux - Snowshoe Spam - Botnets

MX Tools is an Authorized Spamhaus and SURBL Datafeed Vendor. MX Tools provides sales and technical support for the Spamhaus Datafeed Service and other messaging anti-abuse tools. Spamhaus is generally regarded as a key piece of the 'Best Practices' approach to protecting email systems from the onslaught of messaging abuse."

CA

"CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and physical to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments, enabling our customers to deliver more flexible IT services.

Our solutions help our customers gain a level of deep insight into and exceptional control over complex, mixed IT environments. It is that level of insight and control that enables IT organizations to power business agility."

Microsoft

"As businesses look to drive growth, they need to increase collaboration, sharing, and access to information, but must do so while protecting their assets and infrastructure. This most often needs to be realized in an environment of shrinking budgets and increased regulatory pressure. Microsoft Forefront delivers business-ready security with an integrated line of protection, access, and identity management products. Microsoft Forefront products help:

  • Protect everywhere while providing policy-based, anywhere access to your mobile workforce
  • Integrate and extend your existing infrastructure to maximize ROI, and
  • Simplify the management of security and compliance.
  • Security threats are an industry-wide issue and it is important that the industry work together to stay ahead of these threats and help protect customers. Microsoft is committed to collaborating with researchers, ISVs, partners and law enforcement organizations to help provide customers with a safer online experience. As part of this industry work, Microsoft is happy to be a Gold Sponsor of the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference.

    Kingsoft Internet Security

    "Internet Security Software: Our principal Internet security software product is Kingsoft Internet Security, which is one of the leading domestically produced Internet security softwares in China. Kingsoft Internet Security offers secure content management functions, such as anti-virus, anti-spy and anti-spam, incorporated into a single and easy-to-use platform. It is used to (1) defend against, scan and remove over 1,000,000 security threats such as viruses; (2) remove spyware and trojans from computer memory to secure user systems; and (3) block phishing websites and emails to prevent identity thefts.

    We maintain www.duba.net, a website dedicated to Kingsoft Internet Security, which offers online customer service, provides information regarding Kingsoft Internet Security and allows users to download Kingsoft Internet Security and communicate with other users on various topics regarding Internet security. By generating a large population of viewers and users, this website helps us to increase consumer awareness of Kingsoft Internet Security software and our other products and services and generating online advertising revenue.

    Kingsoft Internet Security 2011 has come to the market with more consolidated features including a more extensive local virus base, excellent Active Defense Technology and Internet Reliance Certification. It has an approach against suspicious software communication, virus embedding and distributed attacks on PCs across networks happening on a daily basis. Kingsoft Internet Security 2011 is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7 systems."

    Silver sponsors

    OPSWAT

    "OPSWAT (www.opswat.com) is the world leader in development tools and data services that power the manageability of security solutions. OPSWAT offers several different products:

    The OESIS Framework enables software engineers and technology vendors to develop products that detect, classify and manage thousands of software applications - from anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewalls to URL filtering, VPN clients and more. The product boasts over 50 million installations worldwide.

    OESIS OK (www.oesisok.com), a certification program that verifies the interoperability of software with technology solutions from vendors like Cisco, Juniper and others.

    Metascan is a multi-scanning application with a programming interface that enables IT professionals and software engineers to integrate multiple anti-malware technologies into their solutions. Combining unique technologies from CA, ESET, AVG and others, Metascan improves the likelihood of catching malware.

    And AppRemover, a universal uninstallation SDK which completely removes all traces of installed security applications. A home trial version is available at http://www.appremover.com/."

    Trustport

    "TrustPort is a major producer of award-winning software solutions for secure communications and reliable data protection. Its portfolio includes both products for home and small office, and products for middle and large enterprises. These products excel in several security areas, including anti-virus, anti-spam and encryption technology. The portfolio includes the following key products; TrustPort Antivirus is a compact solution for protection of desktops and laptops. TrustPort PC Security supplements anti-virus protection with firewall, encryption and shredding tools. For permanent security of flash drives, TrustPort USB/U3 Antivirus is also available. TrustPort Net Gateway is a business solution which continuously watches over communications between local networks and the Internet."

    Sunbelt Software

    "Sunbelt Software, part of the GFI Software family, is a leading provider of endpoint and server-based security software for the enterprise, consumer and OEM markets. We protect millions of users globally against the rapidly evolving threat landscape.

    With advanced technology solutions for endpoint anti-malware security, email security, and malware analysis tools, we deliver comprehensive network protection using CWSandbox analysis tools, ThreatTrack Data Feeds and the GFI VIPRE anti-malware product line.

    CWSandbox provides for security vendors, ISPs and large enterprises the ability to rapidly analyse malware for many different purposes including: security research, creation of new signatures, forensic analysis and improved threat protection. Malware samples submitted to the sandbox are executed in a controlled environment, with a comprehensive analysis provided of the malware's execution in XML, HTML or text format. CWSandbox is the market leader for advanced dynamic behavioural analysis and now includes Digital Behavior Traits for intelligent threat detection.

    Oemsales@sunbeltsoftware.com (+1) 727 562 0101 x 650 www.SunbeltSoftware.com"

    ArcaVir

    "ArcaBit is the supplier of ArcaVir security suite. Our passion is in building an effective barrier to all kinds of computer threats. We offer a range of solutions which fit specific needs, starting from the basic anti-virus protection (ArcaVir Antivirus Protection), to the most powerful security package (ArcaVir System Protection). ArcaVir has a steadily growing group of supporters all over the world. Our quality is confirmed by such awards as 'The quality of 2009' and 'VB100'.

    Years of exploring the 'nature' of malicious software has benefited us with the knowledge of how to effectively protect computers against them. We use technologically advanced solutions that fight against malicious codes, computer intrusions and data thefts.

    Every day brings new challenges to computer security. We react with new solutions, like the latest ArcaVir RescueDrive - an innovative diagnostic tool on a pendrive with independent operating system, which allows to launch a computer and back up important data."

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