F-Secure Protection Service in Virus Bulletin's June 2007 comparative test

A Technology Preview build of F-Secure Protection Service for Consumers 7.00 (7.00 build 387) was tested by Virus Bulletin in their June 2007 comparative on Windows XP SP2. The tested F-Secure product did not receive the Virus Bulletin VB100 award in this comparative test because the score for F-Secure Protection Service for Consumers was 99,88%.
F-Secure has received VB100 award in several earlier consequent comparative tests.

The reason for not passing the test is as follows:

The F-Secure Technology Preview (Beta) build which was used in the test had its built-in antivirus databases from early March and therefore the Polymorphic W32/Allaple worm variant was missed. The reason for including an old database in the tested version was a mistake on F-Secure's part. The databases were not updated with an offline database package by the time of review. However, in a normal end-customer environment the databases would have been automatically updated to contain detection for the W32/Allaple variant in question.

F-Secure has had the referred W32/Allaple worm variant detection in our database updates since late April 2007, so normal customer installations have been protected against both W32/Allaple and other threats as usual.

John Hawes, Technical Consultant, at Virus Bulleting states:

"After some investigation, we discovered that the product submitted for the test did not include the latest updates available at the submission deadline. After retesting with these updates in place, F-Secure comfortably detected everything on the WildList, and would easily have qualified for the VB100 award had the correct data been supplied. Their customers, with the benefit of automatic updates, would certainly have been protected by this solid and reliable product."


About F-Secure Corporation
 
F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks. We want to be the most reliable provider of security services in the market. One way to demonstrate this is the speed of our response. According to independent studies in 2004, 2005 and 2006 our response time to new threats is significantly faster than our major competitors. Our award-winning solutions are available for workstations, gateways, servers and mobile phones. They include antivirus and desktop firewall with intrusion prevention, antispam and antispyware solutions.  Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly listed competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, and we have regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also available as a service through major ISPs, such as France Telecom,  TeliaSonera,  PCCW and Charter Communications. F-Secure is the global market leader in mobile phone protection provided through mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia. The latest real-time virus threat scenario news are available at the F-Secure Data Security Lab weblog at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

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