AV-Test, an independent institute that evaluates antivirus products, has awarded their 2016 best product awards. Fifteen awards were presented across different categories such as Protection, Performance, Usability, Repair, and Android Security. The awards are based on the laboratory tests performed on the products throughout 2016. You can learn more about the awards and … [Read more...]
Symantec Endpoint Protection 14 released, takes advantage of Bluecoat acquisition and advanced machine learning
Symantec announced that the latest version of their enterprise antivirus is now available. Symantec Endpoint Protection 14 brings two new features to the product line that is sure to give them an advantage in defending corporate networks. Symantec completed their acquisition of Blue Coat Systems in August and has integrated their threat intelligence into the system to allow … [Read more...]
Microsoft announces Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection for Windows 10
Microsoft announced increased capability coming to the Windows 10 built-in malware protection service Windows Defender. The new abilities will be labeled Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection and will be available this year. While Windows Defender can protect a single machine, it is not very useful in the enterprise environment as it lacks central reporting and … [Read more...]
ESET antivirus false positive blocks website access
ESET experienced a false positive this morning. It was falsely identifying various websites as Javascript or HTML threats. The definition database, version 13102, was pushed out and expanded JS/ScrInject.B trojan and HTML/Refresh.BC trojan to include the false positives. ESET wrote up the experience in Alert5879 and have since deployed an updated virus signature database … [Read more...]
AV-Test announces 2015 antivirus product awards
AV-Test, an independent institute that evaluates antivirus products, has awarded their 2015 best product awards. Twelve awards were presented across different categories such as Protection, Performance, Usability, Repair, and Android Security. The awards are based on the laboratory tests performed on the products throughout 2015. You can learn more about the awards and … [Read more...]