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Transfering to new servers (2010/08/16 17:50)
Due to a great increase in the traffic to our websites, we have to transfer our projects to a new hosting. During the next few days our websites may be unavailable from time to time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for understanding and patience.
Outpost 7 to join excellent products (2010/06/29 14:28)
Outpost Security Suite Pro 7 has been tested in Proactive Security Challenge and reached the fourth place with the Excellent 97% score. Comodo Internet Security, Online Solutions Security Suite and Online Armor Premium still remain the top 3 products in our challenge.
Online Armor Premium and Online Solutions Security Suite (2010/05/23 11:56)
Our visitors have sent us many requests to test Online Armor Premium against the latest set of tests and also Online Solutions Security Suite, a new security suite on the market. If you are interested how these two performed, check out the latest news and results of Proactive Security Challenge!
KHOBE – 8.0 earthquake for Windows desktop security software (2010/05/05 09:00)
In September 2007, we have published an article about a great disease that affected tens of Windows security products. The article called Plague in (security) software drivers revealed awful quality of kernel mode drivers installed by all the major desktop security products for Windows. The revealed problems could cause random system crashes, freezes and in some cases more severe security issues.
Today, we reveal even more serious problem of the Windows desktop security products that can be exploited to bypass a big portion of security features implemented by the affected products. The protection implemented by kernel mode drivers of today's security products can be bypassed effectively by a code running on an unprivileged user account. If you ever heard of SSDT hooks or similar techniques to implement various security features such as products' self-defense, we will show you how to bypass the protection easily.
Continue to article, advisory.
Comodo Internet Security perfect again! (2010/05/01 16:10)
Many of our visitors were eager about results of Comodo Internet Security against the latest set of tests in Proactive Security Challenge. And finally, the results are here! Comodo Internet Security goes on the top again with the perfect result. Congratulations!
New leader (2010/03/30 17:10)
During the last weeks we have tested five more products: Jetico Personal Firewall, BitDefender Internet Security, Kaspersky Internet Security and most recently also Online Armor Free and Trend Micro Internet Security Pro. Among these products only Kaspersky Internet Security and Online Armor Free have been awarded with Proactive Security Challenge awards. Online Armor Free is the first product that reached the Excellent level of protection after the last improvement of the testing suite. Congratulations!
PSC Awards, Malware Defender receives first one (2010/03/04 18:29)
We are introducing Proactive Security Challenge Awards. Every product tested against the full set of 148 tests that reaches at least Very good protection level will receive a Proactive Security Challenge Award. The vendor of such a product may request for the PSC Award logo that can be placed on the product's web page or printed on its box.
We have also retested two products in Proactive Security Challenge, namely Malware Defender and McAfee Internet Security. Malware Defender has become the first product that received Proactive Security Challenge Award. Check out the latest results!
New results (2010/02/21 13:25)
After quite a long pause we are back again with new results. We have started the new era of Proactive Security Challenge with 148 tests, which cover many areas of Windows security that were not examined before.
In last few days we have tested Privatefirewall, Norton Internet Security, ZoneAlarm Extreme Security and avast! Internet Security. If you are interested, check out the results!
Another Proactive Security Challenge milestone – it now contains 148 tests (2010/01/04 10:30)
We have implemented several major changes in our Proactive Security Challenge:
1) 64 new tests have been implemented to SSTS. The main focus was to cover files and folders protection, registry keys and values protection and control of system autorun entries. Several tests of other kind were implemented too. A functionality of a few tests has been changed.
2) Scoring have changed in case of many tests. There are currently no 5%, 10% or 50% penalties, every failure leads to score of 0% for the given test. This affects many termination tests, SSS, SSS2, SSS3, Driver Verifier, BSODhook and ShadowHook tests.
3) The vendors now have a right of only one free testing request per six months for all their products, previously they had two such requests for every product. This change is enforced by the extensive amount of the new tests.
4) SSTS now contains the new Configurator tool. This tool is handy for creating the configuration files, especially for the settings required by the new tests related to file and registry protection.
The vendors are now given five weeks to review their products' protections. The tests with the new version of the suite and new rules will start after that.
The further development will focus on implementing new testing suite for Windows 7 on 64-bit platform.
Proactive Security Challenge news, 100% for PC Tools (2009/12/11 18:07)
After quite a long time we have published new results in Proactive Security Challenge. This time for two latest versions of PC Tools Firewall Plus and Online Armor Premium. The latest version of PC Tools Firewall Plus reached the perfect result and now shares the first position in our challenge with Comodo Internet Security. Online Armor is still close to this with 99%.
As mentioned previously, we are working on a new set of tests that will raise the bar again and cover areas of Windows OS security that are not covered by our tests yet. This is why there are few new results published in these days. We thank you for your patience. We believe the new tests will be worth it.