F-Secure protection technologies have scored high in two
recent independent tests. Reliability of protection is the core
value that F-Secure solutions provide to their users, and these
tests substantiate the ability of F-Secure solutions to live up to
this ambition.
One of today’s most challenging IT security problems are so
called zero-day attacks (new unknown malware for which no signature
detection exists). Recently AV-comparatives
http://www.av-comparatives.org/weblog/
tested F-Secure's behavior-based detection technology F-Secure
DeepGuard for its ability to stop malware that is not found with
traditional signature based virus scanning. F-Secure DeepGuard
passed the test winning the “Proactive Protection Award” and was
able to block all malware used for the test, proving that DeepGuard
is able to do an excellent job of identifying and stopping
previously unknown “zero-day” threats. The F-Secure DeepGuard
technology is based on pervasive monitoring of program behavior
during execution, a method which significantly improves the overall
level of protection compared to traditional signature based file
analysis. This approach enables the security solution to see
beneath the surface of the system to detect and stop threats that
were designed to pass all traditional defenses unnoticed.
“Our test consisted of new virus samples for which no signatures
yet exist. The fact that F-Secure could stop them all with its
DeepGuard technology proves that such a behavior-based analysis of
malware during run-time can be quite effective in stopping zero-day
threats”, says Andreas Clementi, project manager at the
AV-Comparatives test laboratory.
Despite the importance of behavior-based protection, a core
capability of any antivirus solution is the ability to detect
malware that is known and can be identified with traditional
signature based virus scanning. A test done by AV-Test.org (
http://www.av-test.org ) in
May 2007 included over 600,000 malware samples. F-Secure achieved a
very high detection rate, and was able to detect 978 samples more
than Symantec, 42,226 samples that Trend Micro did not detect, and
64,653 samples more than McAfee. F-Secure also detected 105,391
samples that Microsoft’s solution missed.
“F-Secure is a challenger in the global antivirus market, and as
such we need to perform better than our big competitors. Our
systematic focus on innovative protection technology development
and state-of-the-art research coupled with highly automated
proprietary analysis systems is producing results that our
customers see as a very highly reliable protection of their PC’s
and smartphones” says Pirkka Palomäki, Senior Vice President of
Research and Development at F-Secure.
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/
For more information, please contact:
F-Secure Corporation
Ilkka Ranta
Director, Solution Marketing
Tel. +358 (0)40 0789 919
firstname.lastname@f-secure.com
