Emsisoft earns VB100 in August 2019 tests

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The VB100 is a certification designed to test the malware detection capabilities of endpoint security solutions. Virus Bulletin, the independent security experts behind the VB100, have released the results of their August tests, and we’re pleased to announce that Emsisoft has once again earned certification!

What is the VB100?

To earn the VB100, a security product has to pass the Certification Test. The tests are performed on physical computers or virtual machines with specifications similar to those you would expect to find on a typical business PC. Each security product is installed with default settings on a clean instance of Windows.

The tests involve exposing the security products to thousands of malicious samples curated by various organizations, including the WildList Organization, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization and Virus Bulletin.

To determine how accurately a product can distinguish a malicious file from a safe file, the products are also exposed to a set of 100,000 clean files taken from popular software downloads.

To be awarded the VB100, a product has to achieve two things:

Detect at least 99.95 percent of the malicious files.

Mistake no more than 0.01 percent of the clean files as malicious.

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