- With a detection rate of 99.9%, Panda Antivirus Pro 2011, which shares an engine with Panda Security's security solutions, has been distinguished with the Advanced+ seal, the highest award granted by the prestigious laboratory
- The test, carried out last December, has analyzed the different solutions against 82,036 copies of Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs), a category that includes spyware, adware and rogueware or fake antivirus
Panda Antivirus Pro 2011, a solution in panda Security's Consumer range -The Cloud Security Company-, has been distinguished with the Advanced+ award by winning the last on-demand test, carried out by AV-comparatives.org, which sought to measure the detection rates of the so-called Potentially Unwanted Programs, a category that includes, among others, spyware, spyware adware and rogueware or fake antivirus.
In the test carried out, the prestigious independent safety laboratory AV-comparatives.org launched a battery of 82,036 copies against each of the solutions. Panda proved its effectiveness against this type of threat by detecting 99.9% of all of them.
The graph of undetected specimens is available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/5374400329/
This image of the detection ratios table can be seen at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/5374400325/
According to the 2010 Annual Report of PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security, the categories included in the name Potentially Dangerous Programs represent about 11% of the total of the more than 20 million different threats that have appeared last year and that have been classified by Collective Intelligence. On the other hand, in 2010 40% of the total number of copies of fake antiviruses appeared. Or what is the same, since this new type of threat appeared, four years ago, in PandaLabs we have classified 5,651,786 unique and different copies of false antivirus: of this total, 2,285,629 have appeared from January to November 2010.
Finally, the award-winning product, Panda Antivirus Pro 2011, is part of the Panda Security Consumer range and shares its anti-malware engine, and its ability to detect these and other examples, with the rest of the range. In addition, its malware detection and identification technology takes advantage of the knowledge of the millions of users that make up the Collective Intelligence community, an automatic system that detects, analyzes and classifies new threats practically in real time.
About Panda SecurityFounded in 1990, Panda Security is the world's leading cloud-based security solutions. The company has products translated into more than 23 languages and millions of customers in 195 countries. Panda Security was the first computer security company to take advantage of the potential of 'Cloud Computing' with its Collective Intelligence technology. This innovative security model can automatically analyze and classify thousands of new malware samples per day, providing corporate customers and home users with the most effective protection against Internet threats with minimal impact on PC performance. Panda Security has 61 offices around the world and headquarters in the United States (Florida) and Europe (Spain).As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility policy, Panda Security collaborates with Special Olympics, WWF and Invest for Children.
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