F-Secure achieves excellent results in Internet security suite comparison

Results from AV-Test.org put F-Secure ahead of its main competitors, while its ‘in-the-cloud’ technology takes Internet security to another level.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – October 9, 2008 -- The latest F-Secure Internet Security 2009 consumer product has gained excellent results against its main competitors in the major comparison of Internet security suites conducted by AV-Test.org, an independent testing organization specializing in security solution testing. F-Secure Internet Security 2009 also showed improved performance compared to last year’s version of the product, including faster scanning speed and response times.

The AV-Test.org covered a range of metrics, including detection rates for various types of malware including adware and spyware, false positive rates, scanning speed, proactive detection, and response times to outbreaks. F-Secure Internet Security 2009 scored particularly well in AV-Test’s ‘malware on demand’ category with a detection rate of 99.2%, and also in the ‘spyware/adware on demand’ category with a 99.6% detection rate. According to the results, another strong point of F-Secure Internet Security 2009 was in the ‘proactive detection’ category that examined the performance of its heuristics and behavioral detection (HIPS).

While the AV-Test.org results proved that F-Secure’s traditional signature based detection, heuristics and behavioral detection worked extremely well in detecting malware, the test did not analyze the benefits of F-Secure’s innovative ‘in-the-cloud’ technology. F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0 technology (NHIPS) is part of the F-Secure Internet Security 2009 product and uses in-the-cloud protection technology to verify the trustworthiness of all programs that are executed on a computer.

By accessing a real-time protection network, F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0 decreases the response time to new threats to just milliseconds, while also decreasing the number of false positives and further improving scanning speed. For the computer user this means that the quality of protection against today’s real threats in the Internet will be even better than the already excellent level illustrated by AV-Test.org.

Patrik Runald, Chief Security Advisor, said: “The real-time protection network means that F-Secure can protect its customers faster and more accurately than ever. F-Secure is at the forefront of developing in-the-cloud technology and the recently launched F-Secure Internet Security 2009 was the first consumer product in the industry to bring the benefits of in-the-cloud protection technology to millions of Internet users.”