Zhang holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark, and a B.S. degree from Zhengzhou University, both in electrical engineering. Prior to joining Microsoft, Zhang was a research manager at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto. He also worked at the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore. Currently, he is also a professor and Ph.D supervisor at University of Science and Technology of China and a guest professor at Tsinghua University.

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The AV-Comparatives weblog just confirmed their test participants for the year 2010.

Thirty (30) vendors were interested in the tests, but only a limited number of participants were selected. The following vendors are on the tentative participation list for the year 2010 test-series:

• Avast, AVG, AVIRA
• BitDefender, eScan, ESET
• F-Secure, G DATA, Kaspersky
• Kingsoft, McAfee, Microsoft
• Norman, Panda, Sophos
• Symantec, Trend Micro, Trustport

You can read the original article here.

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Kingsoft Internet Security won the 2009 Most Valuable Product award from the most-circulated IT publication in China called Home Computer. Next it became the fastest anti-virus scanning software in the AV-Comparatives test, in which it beat Symantec. Finally, it took home the CHIP Product of the Year award. This award is presented by the leading industry publication, New Computer, and is based on three main criteria: innovation, value, and influence. These awards represent industry recognition of Kingsoft’s excellence and outstanding capability in the anti-virus software market.

Mr. Pak Kwan Kau, Chairman of Kingsoft, said:

These awards not only represent industry recognition for us, but also give us great encouragement. The accreditations are evidence of our trail-blazing ability in [the] anti-virus software industry.

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With the growing popularity of Instant Messaging, the security of this message type has become a great concern. Kingsoft has been an early adopter in this area starting in October 2008, the company reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Microsoft to jointly launch the MSN Protection Shield. This software has been well received by the market with active users and monthly users over 6.59 million and 3 million respectively at the end of January 2010, while daily active users were up to 1.23 million.

Kingsoft believes the demand of security software for Instant Messaging will continue to surge. Leveraging their advanced technology and strategic alliance with MSN, Kingsoft is well positioned to capture the immense opportunities ahead.

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You can learn more about Kingsoft Internet Security here.

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Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus was recently reviewed by CNET and has earned 4 out of 5 stars. The massive amount of program options and security services provided by the product was the highlight of the review.

Below is an excerpt from the review:

The program includes tons of functions and options, but its interface is easy to understand and navigate, with a professional layout and an intuitive command structure. If there’s a criticism that can be leveled, it’s that the program actually offers too many quality options, which can be overwhelming to some users.

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With the year 2009 behind us, AV-Comparatives has released their Summary Report for 2009. Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus has been awarded two medals: GOLD for Best Scanning Speed, and SILVER for Best Overall Speed.

Here is an excerpt from the Summary Report:

Kingsoft should be considered a reputable company just for this, as they know that there are no borders in the Internet, and Anti-Virus software should detect all malware, regardless of its origin. [..] Kingsoft is the fastest scanner according to our tests. The user interface is kept very simple and easy to use.

You can read a more general overview from this PCMag.com article.

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Kingsoft has been selected by Forbes China, the world-renowned magazine, as one of the most promising up and comers in China for 2010, with a leap from 51st place in 2008 to 16th place this year. Kingsoft has been selected for the third time in a roll, which proves that the company is highly competitive and profitable with huge potentials for further growth and development.

This is the sixth time Forbes China has conducted an independent appraisal of over 8,000 SMEs with an annual revenue from 5 million to 1 billion in China. The calculation of the ranking is based on the weighted computation derived from the growth index (3 years weighted sales growth rate and profit growth rate), return rate index (3 years weighted ROA and ROE), profitability index (sales profit rate) and scale index of enterprises with some candidates participated in site visits. Through all these processes, the top 200 SMEs with greatest growth potentials are ranked accordingly.

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AV-Comparatives has completed testing of Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus for their Performance Test in December 2009. The focus of this test was on the system performance impact of the real-time on-access components of the security software. The complete results can be found here.

The test was performed on a clean Windows XP Professional SP3 system with defragmented disks. They repeated each test several times and averaged the results. In several cases they ran the test and then ran the same test again, to handle programs that learn and therefore run more quickly after the first time.

Here are the performance results opening files:

Here are the certification star ratings:

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How much people paid

82% of purchasers picked the cheapest option and paid the minimum payment of $2 required ($1 per application). The second largest group (8%) paid $10 per order. In the end only 0.6 % paid the full retail price of $39.95. The average price per order was $3.32.

The best day

Our best day was December 9, 2009. This day generated 18.5% of sales. Although this was not the most popular day on our site, we ended up with a 6% conversion ratio between web visitors and orders. We believe we experienced a mismatch of regular online traffic with offline traffic from an article printed in the Florida Times Union. This newspaper delivered the most motivated buyers to our site with an average price per order of $3.70, 11% higher than usual. A big thanks goes also to The Inquirer and various other online blogs that delivered a high volume of visitors to our site and made this experiment possible.

Approximate value by country

Orders were placed from 22 countries. Just for curiosity sake, we analyzed the payment amount using the per-capita GDP of the country in question to estimate the “approximate software value” for buyers from each country, using the United Stated as a base for this comparison. We use United States as a base because all payments from our e-commerce provider were converted to USD and because the majority of sales (37.36%) came from USA customers.

As you can see the approximate software value per country fluctuates from $2.39 to $119.20. Of course, we understand that these results are very speculative and do not represent a real value of the product, which is individual to each buyer. Thanks again to everyone who bought the software.

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AV-Compariative has completed testing of Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus for their Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) Test in November 2009. The focus of this test was on the detection of grey area malware. The complete results can be found here.

The first PUA test contained 750,297 individual samples that cover adware, spyware, and rogue software gathered between January 2009 and October 2009. Not all security products include detection for this grey area malware. Sixteen products were tested and set on the highest detection settings (except for Sophos and F-Secure, per their own request), and put to the test.

Here is the chart of missed samples in percentage points from the test:

Here is an excerpt from the original article:

The results seem to suggest that the best antivirus applications that regularly rank highly in general malware tests are not necessarily as good at anti-adware, antispyware, and antirogue detection. That said, all 16 products detected at least 85 percent of the threats, which is respectable. Overall, we can say that the detection rate of PUAs is similar to the detection rate of general malware.

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Pay whatever you think Kingsoft Office (retail $39.95) and Kingsoft Internet Security (retail $24.95) is worth before December 14, 2009! Get a true alternative to Microsoft Office together with antivirus protection for your computer at a price you can afford. Pick your price, minimum $1 per application.

Pay what you want, starting at only $1.00. Ends Dec. 14, 2009 Click here to purchase.

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The Inquirer has published an article on the statistics of our Pay What You Want Sale. The majority of purchasers have opted for the cheapest alternative, with 87% of shoppers handing over the minimum payment of $1 per application. Just over 5% paid $10, making it the second most popular option.

Here is an excerpt from the original article:

The average price paid for Kingsoft Office and Kingsoft Internet Security was $3.32. Just over one per cent paid the full $39.95 price for Kingsoft Office, and he explained that this was the maximum amount received for any order. One thing is sure, the experiment has driven sales. Premsyl said that sales at the firm had increased by 61% in comparison with the same period last month.

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Kingsoft announced that it has teamed up with Taobao and Alipay, two well-known online shopping platforms, as well as the Maxthon browser, one of the most popular web browsers in China, to form the first Chinese safe online shopping platform. This partnership will further strengthen the Kingsoft Internet Security product by providing more malware sources.

Here is an excerpt from the original article:

Since its release at the end of November, Kingsoft WebShield 3.0 has had over ten million installations. Kingsoft WebShield and Alipay will mutually share the database of fraudulent websites. Alipay will send the list of fraudulent websites, provided by users or automatically detected by system, to Kingsoft WebShield. Kingsoft WebShield will also send its latest list to Alipay on a daily basis. As such, both parties can guard against fraudulent websites swiftly. These two lines of defence enormously strengthened the security of online shopping without affecting website browsing.

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Jacksonville.com has published a news article on our current pay what you want social experiment.

Here is an excerpt from the original article:

BinaryNow, a multi-vendor online software store, is allowing people to pay as little as $1 per program for the Chinese-authored Kingsoft Office suite, which normally retails for $39.95, and the Kingsoft Internet Security program, which normally retails for $24.95, said BinaryNow President Premysl Pech.

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You can read the original press release here, and the Virus Bulletin report here.

Ke Ge, Senior Vice President at Kingsoft, said:

Kingsoft Internet Security has been awarded VB100 for the eighth time since 2007. Our capability is recognized by the successive praise from international authorities. As there is an increasing market demand for internet security software, Kingsoft Internet Security will continue to extend its reach on the Internet and enhance its internet-based operations and services to sustain the high growth of our applications software business.

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Mr. Pak Kwan KAU, Chairman and CEO of Kingsoft, said:

The company is now in the leading position in the industry, but will also further review, and constantly improve the functionality of products to meet the needs of users.

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AV-Comparatives used two sets of malware: Set A, which contains malware signatures found from December 2007 to December 2008 (of which most products could detect over 97 percent), and Set B, which contains malware from the last seven months (1.6 million samples). The set included the following categories of malware: Trojans (69.5 percent), Backdoors/Bots (20.7 percent), Worms (6.1 percent), other malware (1.5 percent), and Windows viruses (0.4 percent).

Below is the results from the November 2009 test:

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Internet security provider Kingsoft has published a report on China’s computer virus and Internet security in October 2009, stating that 3,031,921 new viruses were detected in mainland China during the month and 20,812,698 computers were affected by these viruses.

Here is an excerpt from the original article:

Li Tiejun, an anti-virus engineer from Kingsoft Duba, told local media that identification-theft trojans targeting security keys for online games started to appear in October. Meanwhile, more binding trojans spread via both illegal and legal websites.

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