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New: Latest RAP results

VB's RAP (Reactive and Proactive) testing provides deeper insight into products' ability to keep up with the flood of new malware emerging around the world, as well as their proactive detection capabilities - putting heuristic and generic technology to the test. The results of the first three rounds of RAP testing can now be viewed.

Featured articles

Anti-spam comparative review July 2009

In VB’s second round of anti-spam comparative testing and certification the all-important question was whether the high achievers from the first test could maintain the same high standards this month. Martijn Grooten has the results of a test in which more products were tested against a larger spam corpus and with stricter benchmarks.

A day in the life of an average user

Gabor Szappanos researches the dangers of being an average computer user.

MicroWorld eScan Internet Security Suite 10

The VB testing team put MicroWorld Technologies’ eScan Internet Security Suite through its paces and find a top-class level of protection with much to offer.

Early warning approaches to combat typosquatting

Typosquatting takes advantage of the typographical mistakes often made by users when entering a website address into a web browser. Amit Verma discusses a two-step approach to combatting the problem, prioritizing the registration of domain typos and detecting typos entered into Internet browsers and email clients.

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Malware prevalence

Virus Name	Prevalence	Pct
Dropper-misc		19.0%
Waledac		18.0%
Agent		13.7%
NetSky		8.3%
Invoice		6.9%
Virut		6.0%
OnlineGames		2.7%
Iframe		2.6%

Anti-spam testing

Virus Bulletin's anti-spam tests use a live email stream to expose all products on test to the same email in real time. The tests measure products' spam catch rate and false positive rate and certifications are awarded to products that achieve or exceed predefined benchmarks in both measurements.

VGrep

VGrep is an essential tool designed to help clear up some of the confusion surrounding the naming of viruses.
VGrep can be used freely by registered users. More information on malware can be found in our extensive resources section.

VB100

Virus Bulletin's unique VB100 certification scheme provides an unbiased picture of how anti-malware products fare in a competitive analysis. The stringent product testing methods combined with VB's commitment to reporting performances exactly as they are found makes the VB100 an award vendors strive to achieve.

Exhibitors at the VB Conference.

VB Conference

The VB conference is a major highlight of the anti-malware calendar, with many of its regular attendees citing it as the anti-malware event of the year. The 19th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2009) will be held 23-25 September 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. Register now!

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