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McAfee Ranked Highest Overall
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2004-10-05
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The threat detection technology available in the recently released 2005 version of McAfee VirusScan for home users achieved the overall highest ranking in two recent comparative evaluations conducted by AV-Comparatives, an independent testing organization, surpassing 12 other competing vendors.
"Many new viruses and other types of malware appear every day. It's important that anti-virus solutions like McAfee VirusScan provide new updates as fast and often as possible in order to identify these new threats, while also detecting certain malware behavior in advance of outbreaks with generic or heuristic techniques," said Andreas Clementi, Project Coordinator for AV-Comparatives. "Through our testing, McAfee VirusScan proved its ability to do both."
The first of the two recent AV-Comparative evaluations, reported in May 2004, covered behavioral and heuristic scanning, and the second more recent AV-Comparative evaluation, reported in August 2004, covered on-demand comparative tests for viruses, malware, and dialers. In both evaluations, AV-Comparatives ranked McAfee VirusScan for home users as the overall leader.
"AV-Comparatives testing results are indicative of the strong strategic advantage that McAfee VirusScan has over the competition with its proactive home PC protection technology," said Brent Lymer, senior director product and partner management for McAfee Consumer Strategy and Marketing Group. "We are proud to offer home users a more advanced, industry leading approach to home computer security with McAfee VirusScan."
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