CRN Network, January 19, 2012, 1100 hrs
Kaspersky Lab has received Product of the Year award for Kaspersky Antivirus and Kaspersky Internet Security by AV-Comparatives, an independent testing laboratory. The company won the award for the third time.
The award is based on the findings of nine comparative tests of consumer antivirus solutions conducted over the year. Kaspersky Lab was awarded the highest grade, Advanced+, in all nine tests.
AV-Comparatives’ experts evaluated solutions on level of detection of malicious programs and effectiveness of heuristic algorithms, the number of false positives, resource usage, how well an infected system is treated, and effectiveness in real world user scenarios.
“We have been having our products independently tested by AV-Comparatives for several years now. We have never been afraid to learn about our mistakes through such testing so that we can swiftly rectify them. Our products being recognized as of the highest quality based on 2011’s different comparative tests, with top marks in each, is an achievement we can be truly proud of,” said Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and Founder, Kaspersky Lab.
“This year, we have decided to recognize all those products with excellent overall results by giving them the new AV-Comparatives Top Rated award. However, we still have only one Product of the Year. Kaspersky’s security products do not all depend on just one technology, but provide all-round protection using a wide range of different mechanisms, including heuristics, behavioral detection, cloud features, signatures, and others, without being over-dependent on individual components. Kaspersky Lab was the only vendor to receive the Advanced+ award in every single test conducted by AV-Comparatives in 2011, making it the clear winner of the Product of the Year award,” said Andreas Clementi, Chairman, AV-Comparatives.
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