Philadelphia, PA – June 1, 2011 – The spyware detection library behind Ascentive’s Spyware Striker Pro anti-spyware application has been awarded the Virus Bulletin VB100 award for June 2011. Virus Bulletin is a highly-respected independent comparative testing group that conducts quarterly tests of antivirus products. These tests focus on virus detection rates, speed of scanning, and the outcome of how each product fares when scanning a set of files that are known to be clean.
The VB100 comparative review for June 2011 tested 43 antivirus products on the Windows Server 2008 platform for malware detection rates, lack of false positives, and speed of scanning. Spyware Striker Pro’s detection library successfully detected 100 percent of viruses “in the wild” without creating a single false positive. Viruses are generally categorized as “in the wild” when they are spreading as a result of normal day-to-day operations on and between the computers of unsuspecting users.
To pass the VB100 award testing criteria, antivirus products must detect 100 percent of malware listed as “in the wild” by the WildList Organization during both on-demand and on-access scanning. In addition, the products must not generate any false positives when scanning a set of clean files.
This is actually the fourth consecutive VB100 designation received by the software’s detection library including those received from tests conducted in April of this year, December of 2010, and August of 2010. Past designations were for the Windows XP, Window 7, and Windows Vista platforms respectively.
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