Trend Micro IS 2008 achieved the highest score in the removal of malicious code

According to the independent testing company AV-test.org, Trend Micro scored high in all categories: signature-based and proactive detection, both response times and rootkit detection.

Trend Micro Inc., a leading provider of Internet content security software and services, has announced that its end-user anti-malware product, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, has the highest score of 28 antivirus products from AV-Test.org, a leading independent testing company. tester.

The independent testing organization AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) at the University of Otto-von-Guericke in Magdeburg, Germany, reports that of the 4 products in the test, Trend Micro Internet Security identified all 12 rootkits that it surpassed its main competitors. A rootkit is malicious software that takes control of a computer system. It is difficult to detect after activating itself in most cases before booting.

Trend Micro achieved the highest rating of “Very Good” in this test category. Trend Micro's product also received the best rating available in terms of signature-based on-demand detection capabilities, outperforming its major competitors. According to AV-Test.org, the products have been tested with more than a million Trojans and backdoor programs, bots, worms and viruses that are currently spreading or have spread in the last six months.

The test results for the other categories are as follows:

• False alarms / passed programs: Good. (Trend Micro's product caused only one false alarm when scanning 65 clean files.)
• Proactive detection: “Good”. (Tests performed on 3 previous and 500 active samples to test for "dynamic detection" and prevention of malware.)
• Response time to new, spreading malicious codes: Good. (Trend Micro products responded to the epidemic spread of malicious codes within 2-4 hours based on 2007 different samples from 55. For products from other major suppliers, this value ranged from 4 to 8 hours.)

According to research conducted by TrendLabs, Trend Micro’s global research, service and support centers, web threats grew 1 percent between 500 and 2005. The AV-Test team also discovered more than 2007 million new malicious samples in 5,5. It also shows that even while surfing the internet on a computer or mobile device, countless virus attacks can hit a user’s home computer or network, causing enormous damage. Therefore, the importance of sample detection remains, but it becomes crucial that computers and mobile devices do not have access to sites that contain malicious code, as this will prevent malware from entering your computer or network.

Trend Micro offers coordinated security in all areas — network, gateway, and endpoints — where web threats can be stopped most effectively. With Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, users get proactive, seamless protection against threats to their digital identities and their private or important files and images stored on their computer. The product includes the following features: virus protection, spyware protection, personal firewall, fraud protection, wireless network monitoring, home network control, and advanced parental control.