ORANGE VIRUS ALERT - Unlike Traditional Antivirus Products, Based on Signatures, These Proactive Protection Technologies Do Not Need to Be Updated to Detect New Samples of
Cybercrime and Malware - To Achieve the Highest Levels of Security Against Internet-Borne Cybercrime Threats, Combination of Reactive and Proactive Technologies Is Required
GLENDALE, Calif., Aug. 18 -Before any security company was able to generate a vaccine to detect and eliminate the Zotob, and IRCBot.KC and KD cybercrime worms -- which yesterday were able to affect numerous large companies and institutions, especially in the US -- Panda Software clients who had TruPrevent(TM) proactive protection technologies installed were already immune to the attacks from these malicious codes.
A proactive technology should protect systems before a threat even appears. Panda Software's proactive technologies observe and analyze behavior, establishing, in real-time and transparently to users, if processes started on a computer could represent a threat to the system and blocking them if they are suspicious. This means they are able to prevent cybercrime attacks from malicious code such as Zotob and IRCBot. For this reason, TruPrevent(TM) Technologies do not need to be updated every time a new example of malware appears in order to block it. Dangerous malicious code such as Sobig, MyDoom and Netsky, were also blocked effectively by TruPrevent(TM).
Luis Corrons, director of PandaLabs, explains, "Our proactive technologies operate on the basis of a correlation algorithm that we have developed after years of research. This is why they don't need signature files to be able to detect a new species of malware. Since the launch of these technologies in August 2004, they have proved to be highly effective, proactively blocking more than 18,000 samples of unknown malware of all types: bots, spyware, Trojans, worms, viruses, etc. The real proof of their effectiveness is that these technologies now protect more than one and a half million PCs -- both corporate and consumer -- across the world."
Independent tests confirm the effectiveness of TruPrevent(TM) Technologies
TruPrevent(TM) Technologies underwent an exhaustive study by ICSA Labs (1) Premier Services Group, one of the world's most prestigious IT security laboratories, which made evident their effectiveness against new Internet-borne threats. The tests carried out by ICSA Labs confirm the following aspects of the functionality of TruPrevent(TM) Technologies.
* The ability to protect against a wide range of unknown malware and
cybercrime (viruses, Trojans, adware, etc.)
* Absence of false positives.
* Ultra-low impact on the system.
Similarly, a study carried out for PC Magazine by another important security laboratory, AV-Test (http://www.av-test.org), demonstrated how TruPrevent(TM) Technologies were able to detect two thirds of the unknown malware used for the analysis. This fact was acclaimed by PC Magazine as "highly impressive for a solution based solely on behavioral analysis."
According to Bernardo Quintero, Technical Coordinator at the VirusTotal suspicious file analysis service at the Hispasec security laboratory, "The use of a traditional antivirus, based exclusively on signatures, is not enough. There is always a time lag between the detection of the threat, publication of the specific solution and update of antivirus products which leaves systems vulnerable. This problem is exacerbated by worms that exploit vulnerabilities to spread automatically to other systems, such as the recent IRCBot and Zobot, as they do not require user intervention and can infect numerous systems in a question of minutes. The use of proactive technologies, such as TruPrevent(TM), offers an additional security layer, complementing traditional reactive technologies. Analysis of suspicious behavior patterns instead of using specific identifiers, allows new malicious code to be detected generically without having to rely on reactive updates."
Combination of reactive and proactive technologies: the key to security against Internet-borne threats
TruPrevent(TM) Technologies are not designed to replace traditional antivirus solutions -- which are still highly effective against known malware -- but act as the perfect complement. They represent a first line of defense to prevent attacks from unknown cybercrime and malware, sending blocked files to PandaLabs, where the corresponding vaccine is generated and later included in signature file updates for traditional antivirus solutions.
Panda Software corporate products include TruPrevent(TM) Technologies to achieve the highest levels of security against Internet threats through the integration of a wide range of technologies implemented as a layered strategy. Panda EnterpriSecure and Panda BusinesSecure include, among others, signature-based detection technologies, anti-spyware technologies, content filtering, anti-spam, Web filtering, and TruPrevent(TM) Technologies. This integration of technologies avoids the need to buy specific solutions for each threat, reducing excessive costs and incompatibility problems and ensuring optimum system performance.
Evaluation versions of the Panda Software corporate solutions can be downloaded at http://enterprises.pandasoftware.com/download/
About PandaLabs
Since 1990, its mission has been to analyze new threats as rapidly as possible to keep our clients safe. Several teams, each specialized in a specific type of malware (viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, phishing, spam, etc.), work 24/7 to provide global coverage. To achieve this, they also have the support of TruPrevent(TM) Technologies, which act as a global early-warning system made up of strategically distributed sensors to neutralize new threats and send them to PandaLabs for in-depth analysis. According to Av.Test.org, PandaLabs is currently the fastest laboratory in the industry in providing complete updates to users (more info at http://www.pandasoftware.com/pandalabs.asp).
For more information:
Carolina Sanabria
Panda Software, USA
Public Relations Coordinator
Tel: (818) 543-6909
pr@pandasecurity.com
(1) The ICSA Labs study of TruPrevent(TM) Technologies is available at: http://enterprises.pandasoftware.com/register.asp?CodigoProducto=42&TipoLead=2 &TipoUsuario=2&Tipo=5&Ref=EM-EN-DICD1E-503&Idioma=2&Country=US&sec=down&track= 17840&DocID=O04
