Thursday, 20th December 2012

Assessing the Effectiveness of Antivirus Solutions

Source: Imperva

From Executive Summary:

In 2012, Imperva, with a group of students from The Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology, conducted a study of more than 80 malware samples to assess the effectiveness of antivirus software. Based on our review, we believe:

The initial detection rate of a newly created virus is less than 5%. Although vendors try to update their detection mechanisms, the initial detection rate of new viruses is nearly zero. We believe that the majority of antivirus products on the market can’t keep up with the rate of virus propagation on the Internet.

For certain antivirus vendors, it may take up to four weeks to detect a new virus from the time of the initial scan.

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