MRG Effitas 360 Assessment & Certification Q3 2016

Petrovic

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Apr 25, 2013
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Only Kaspersky IS was certified level 1

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woodrowbone

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Dec 24, 2011
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WSA used to be on top in MRG:s tests, they have been slipping all year.
Anyone heard if anything changed in the test setup? I wish Sveta or Chris could show up here and give us some inside.
MRG is the only company able to test WSA at the moment, and I would like to know how the samples that failed WSA, did escape from the "safe environment" that WSA creates for unknown files?

/W
 

artek

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May 23, 2014
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WSA used to be on top in MRG:s tests, they have been slipping all year.
Anyone heard if anything changed in the test setup? I wish Sveta or Chris could show up here and give us some inside.
MRG is the only company able to test WSA at the moment, and I would like to know how the samples that failed WSA, did escape from the "safe environment" that WSA creates for unknown files?

/W

They looked like they were doing fine in most categories except for ransomware -- which is something I've heard they've had problems with in the past. Controlling scripts, etc.
 

Azure

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Oct 23, 2014
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MalwareBytes is not an antivirus and it can't compete with an antivirus but it has to work alongside an AV.
It was still featured in this test regardless. And let's not forget it was also compared with other antimalware products, but it didn't do so well.

yes i tested webroot against some ransomeware a few days ago, its behaviour blocker picked it up, but failed to stop the actual infection
Didn't the rollback feature remove the infection later?
 

woodrowbone

Level 10
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Dec 24, 2011
480
They looked like they were doing fine in most categories except for ransomware -- which is something I've heard they've had problems with in the past. Controlling scripts, etc.

The thing is that if we go back in time like 6 months and more, WSA aced these tests, including ransomware.
Something must have changed in WSA, MRG:s way of testing or the malwares found ways out of WSA when in containment?

/W
 

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