Independent Russian research information security portal www.anti-malware.ru tested self-protection of 15 most popular antivirus programs.

Self-protection tests were held using specially designed utility software imitating attacks or generating attacks by hand. The antivirus working capacity (of its separate modules, active processes, services and drivers) was checked after each attack.

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 topped all in self-protection and was awarded Gold Self-Protection Award. This antivirus repelled 97% of all attacks and scored 32 points of 33, underscoring only 1% to win Platinum Self-Protection Award.

The three products - VBA32 Antivirus 3.11, Symantec Internet Security 2007 and F-Secure Internet Security 2007 showed high results (from 61 to 71%) and were awarded Silver Self-Protection Award.

The results of the tests are available at the site of the portal Anti-Malware.

Summarizing the results of the tests we can state that only 4 antivirus products (Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0, VBA32 Antivirus 3.11, Symantec Internet Security 2007 and F-Secure Internet Security 2007) have the self-protection level which is required today.

About the developer of VBA32:

VirusBlokAda Ltd. is the only antivirus software developer in the Republic of Belarus. In December 2006 the company became a resident of the Hi Tech Park. The main strategic goal of VirusBlokAda Ltd. is to develop and support the protection of the national software from rogue programs attacks

10.08.2007