The Q4 2013 MRG-Effitas Time to Detect Assessment results are in.
The verdict? Emsisoft Anti-Malware receives a Perfect 100% Score once again.
Testing Conditions
MRG-Effitas assesses the ability of security software to protect computers from live and active malware in the wild. The Q4 2013 Time to Detect Assessment exposed 19 different products to 567 early life malware samples. 85% of these samples came from live URLs; 15% came from a USB stick.
The “Time to Detect” metric measures how long it takes a software to detect a malware infection that the software was unable to prevent.
Emsisoft’s 100% Performance
- 567 samples blocked
- 0 samples missed
- Time to Detect: 0 hours
Emsisoft Anti-Malware blocked 100% of the test’s malware samples on its very first try. Nothing slipped through. As such, our Time to Detect metric was 0 hours.
Conclusion
“Emsisoft, Kaspersk[y] and SoftSphere were the only applications which successfully detected/blocked all 567 malicious binaries and so protected the system under test from infection in the first instance.”
Kaspersky Employees: +2,700
Emsisoft Employees: +25
Same results; 108 times more efficient.
Complete report available for download at the MRG-Effitas website.
About MRG-Effitas
MRG-Effitas is assessing the ability of a cohort of security products to prevent an endpoint from being infected by live, ITW malware. The two metrics MRG-Effitas believes are most relevant are:
1. The time taken to protect a system. There are two sub elements to this metric:
- Time to detect
- Time to remediate
2. Assessment of data exfiltration. There are three sub elements to this metric:
- Determination as to whether a data breach has occurred or not (uncorrupted data)
- Calculation of what was breached
- Measurement of how long the breach occurred