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• Products vary greatly in their ability to stop socially engineered malware
• Proactive 0-hour protection ranged from 26% to 70%
• Over the course of 17 days of 24x7 testing, overall protection varied between 67% and 96%
• In general, don't expect the same results for corporate grade products. Vendors tune products differently for different markets.

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Tested products:

1. AVG Internet Security, version 8.5.375
2. Eset Smart Security 4, version 4.0.437
3. F-Secure Internet Security 2009, version 9.00 build 149
4. Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, version 8.0.0.506
5. McAfee Total Protection Suite 2009
6. Norman Security Suite 7.1
7. Norton Internet Security 2009, version 16.5.0.135
8. Panda Internet Security, version 14
9. Trend Micro Internet Security 2009, version 17.1.1250

Corporate Users - See also: Corporate Endpoint Protection Products Q3 - Recurring testing of 10 corporate grade endpoint protection products vs. our Live Testing of socially engineered malware.

What was tested:

Live Testing captures current malware on the internet and includes new emerging threats which have not yet been classified by antivirus vendors (approximately 10% have been positively identified as malicious based on behavior) as well as some of the following well known viruses, trojans, rootkits and worms: Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface (Worm/Spreading), Net-Worm.Win32.Kolab (Worm/Spreading), Rootkit.Win32.Banker (Rootkit), Trojan.Win32.Vapsup (Browser Modifier/Trojan), Backdoor.Win32.SdBot (IRC Bot/C&C), Backdoor.Win32.PcClient (HTTP C&C Trojan).