BitDefenderŪ, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that BitDefender Internet Security Suite 2008, running on Microsoft Windows XP, received top rootkit detection results in a test conducted by AV-Test.org last month. On Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, BitDefender was also one of the top three products.
The tests, running on Microsoft XP Home Edition and Microsoft Vista Ultimate Edition, pitted 60 active malware samples (both rootkits and malware hidden using rootkits) against a selection of antivirus software packages.
While the results of the test showed that detection and removal of running rootkits is a problem for most major antivirus companies, BitDefender Internet Security 2008 managed to remove 23 rootkits and 27 hidden malware programs, a success which BitDefender CTO Bogdan Dumitru partly attributed to the B-HAVE pro-active detection technology developed by BitDefender.
"The results of tests conducted by independent organizations like AV-Test.org, reinforces BitDefender's success as we strive to improve our proactive detection technologies," said Bogdan Dumitru, BitDefender's CTO.
For further details on the results of this test, please visit AV-Test.org (http://www.av-test.org). Details on the company's testing techniques can also be obtained here.
About AV-Test.org
AV-Test.org is a project of the Business-Information-Workgroup at the Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany) in cooperation with AV-Test GmbH. AV-Test.org's test labs are equipped with more than 100 computers and server systems. Currently accessing 60 Terabytes of testing data (this includes several million malware samples and clean files). Tests are done on all-important desktop and server platforms, including all currently supported versions of Windows, Linux, Solaris, Unix, Lotus Domino/Notes and MS Exchange.
About BitDefenderŪ
BitDefender Total Security 2008 combines state of the art protection against viruses, spyware, hackers, spam and other Internet security threats - Click here to learn more about BitDefender Total Security 2008. |
