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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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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See how Kingsoft Internet Security performance compares to others:

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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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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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AV-Comparatives, the independent international authoritative anti-virus software evaluation organization, announced that Kingsoft Internet Security passed its November 2009 Test. This means Kingsoft Internet Security is the first and the only Chinese made anti-virus software that has passed the test so far.

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.

You can read the entire press release here.

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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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AV-Compariative has completed testing of Kingsoft Internet Security 9 for their Malware Removal Test in October 2009. The focus of this test was on the malware removal capabilities of the product on an already infected computer. The complete results can be found here.

This test was performed on Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit with all updates as of September 2009.

Below is the results from Kingsoft Internet Security:

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