Which Antivirus Products Are Best at Protecting Themselves?

[Ali80]

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http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security-software/329844-which-antivirus-products-are-best-at-protecting-themselves

You depend on your antivirus or security suite to protect your data and your devices, but how well does it protect itself? Security software is just software, and subject to flaws, like any other type of program. Coders can take some simple steps to make sure a software flaw doesn't open the program to exploit attack. However, the latest report from German lab AV-Test Institute shows a wide range in how well security vendors armor their products against direct attack.

Use of DEP and ASLR in Consumer Antivirus Software in 32-bit and 64-bit files http://www.pcmag.com/image_popup/0,1740,iid=440222,00.asp

 

[frogboy]

Thanks handy to know.

 

[Anupam]

Where is ma hero Emsisoft Antimalware? Is it so ahead that it's enjoying the judge seat?

 

[Ali80]

No man ... Arnold Schwarzenegger is judge and jury and he decides to not involve his country made products

 

[Av Gurus]

This is made by AV-TEST

 

[Atlas147]

Does it mean that if either DEP or ASLR are 100% that the programme is 100% protected? Or can certain exploits work if either is not 100%? Sorry learning something new everyday

 

[jamescv7]

Does it mean that if either DEP or ASLR are 100% that the programme is 100% protected? Or can certain exploits work if either is not 100%?

Self protection may become vulnerable at any chances even its totally strong because, there are newly exploit that design to find hole that isn't fully patch.

 

[Atlas147]

Self protection may become vulnerable at any chances even its totally strong because, there are newly exploit that design to find hole that isn't fully patch.

Ahhh I see! Thanks!

 

[BIgD1]

McAfee near the top of this list right ok. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2469309,00.asp

This is why I won't use McAfee, and it was the same years ago, and apparently nothing has changed.

 

[rkkdjb]

what about webroot ?
anyone familiar with it will know its strong right from installation to stopping it to safe mode.
any views ?

 

[Ali80]

100% means that product itself completely implement DEP and ASLR techniques for selfprotection against exploits. If DEP is exploitable (and it is) product is also exploitable, if exploit can bypass ASLR (and it can) it can bypass product selfprotection. Simply 100% means that product is more secure than that with 50%...but we don't know does these AV-s use some other techniques for selfprotection (this test does not show it). This is relevant only (and only) when exploit is targeted to attack some particular AV (today's practice shows that exploits are mainly directed against Java, Flash and PDF-s mostly). For example eSCAN is like Swiss cheese according to this test (ASLR and especially DEP are essential techniques for defense against these targeted attacks.

 

[Ali80]

what about webroot ?
anyone familiar with it will know its strong right from installation to stopping it to safe mode.
any views ?

Webroot is one of the rare products that i never tested Sorry @rkkdjb but I'm sure that there is a lot of MT users that can help you

 

[marg]

If you use Webroot, all I can tell you is Good Luck.

 

[rkkdjb]

If you use Webroot, all I can tell you is Good Luck.

i dont use it...i was just curious, btw what's wrong with it ?

 

[marg]

I think there is a review on this site as well as on Youtube. Poor detection rate.