Virus Bulletin Comparative Review June 2012

 

One of the independent and credible organizations that do testing on antivirus programs regularly is www.virusbtn.com Virus Bulletin. And since 1989 regularly issued Virus Bulletin Virus Bulletin Award. Virus Bulletin Award can be used as a material consideration before you decide to buy an antivirus product. However, the authors would also like to take this opportunity to give a little insight that we as consumers do not immediately believe the claims of the manufacturer and should be critically crosschecking information. 

As an illustration, even in the case of Virus Bulletin Award this if we as consumers will be misled also inaccurate because the brand gain Virus Bulletin anti-virus turned out to be the most even performance in another test Reactive and Proactive Test RAP plain mediocre. Both Virus Bulletin Award and the RAP test does not guarantee that the products that get the most award or the highest RAP test results will be the best antivirus, because there are other factors that you should consider in buying such antiviral onsite support and other services offered by your antivirus provider . To shorten the time the author leads you directly to the results of tests of Virus Bulletin Award in June 2012 and RAP review.

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/

Virus Bulletin test does not charge at all testnya participants and do not allow the Virus Bulletin test again. Performance tests are reported exactly as found. Tests performed on hardware processors AMD Phenom II X2 550, 4GB RAM, dual 80 GB and 1 TB hard drive, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1. Windows Server 2008 platform, OS installation file size of 180 GB with file number 620 000.

Test methods RAP (Reactive and Proactive) is every week antivirus virus test with 25,000 samples. While the amount of virus ditestkan to antivirus program to determine the antivirus program is entitled Virus Bulletin Award is a 541 (Wild List March 2012) http://www.wildlist.org/WildCore/SampleSet/tWildCore/201203.txt. One course Wildlist undetectable virus or a false positive happen (not virus programs detected as a virus), the antivirus program will fail to get Virus bulletin Award. So if you look at the Virus Bulletin Award http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/test?recent=1 list and there is an antivirus program that failed to get the award, do not judge a good program Kruang first, but you have to look further , why antivirus fails to get an award, whether because it is not able to detect a virus or just the opposite, too fierce, causing false positive detection. As an illustration of this is experienced by AVG Internet Security Business Edition which failed to get the Virus Bulletin Award despite being able to detect 100% In The Wild virus sample because of a false positive (see figure 1). Yet another thing that needs attention before you convict AVG is not good is with regard RAP points to get a very good 90.2%. If we look at the testing method in which test RAP 25,000 virus and Virus Bulletin 541 Award virus samples tested only in the wild and AVG could detect all viruses Wild List, but there was only one false positive then it is not too negative for AVG.

Figure 1, AVG Virus Bulletin Award failed to win just because of one false positive

Furthermore, who earned Virus Bulletin Award in June 2012 is the File Server Security AVAST RAP 90.5%, Avira Server Security RAP 93.6%, Bitdefender Security for Servers 93.3% RAP

 

Where the top three vendors did show a good performance with managed to get VB RAP Award and the high point.

It is quite interesting happened on products eScan Internet Security Suite that besides getting VB Award also noted the value of RAP 93.2%, followed by Eset NOD32 Antivirus 4 the record get VB Award 12 times in a row to get a lower value of the RAP program Other antivirus 86.9% above the level of detection of RAP was also lower than that AVG does not get VB Award. Then the other products are also available in Indonesia, which in addition to Fortinet FortiClient secured VB RAP Award also recorded 91.7%.

 3 other antivirus product is also available in Indonesia and get VB Award is the G Data Antivirus Administrator / Client. Products derived from Bochum (Germany) This RAP scores very high 94.5%. GFI Vipre Antivirus 2012 which secured the Award VB RAP scores 86.1% followed by Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows in addition to secured VB RAP Award also get a high enough value 92.4%.

Last three antivirus available in the Indonesian market is Microsoft, Norman and Sophos with the following achievements:

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection managed to get VB Award despite Extd ITW (In the Wild Extended) detection is not 100% and RAP point is quite low 85.5%. In addition, the antivirus from Norway Norman Endpoint Protection also managed to get VB RAP Award but low enough only 85.2%. Sophos Antivirus last who came from England though managed to get VB Award, but the value it achieves RAP included a very low 79.1%.

So a little summary of the results of Virus Bulletin Award in June 2012 and June 2012 the RAP Quadrant original link you can access from Virus Bulletin in http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Dec11-Jun12-large site. jpg.

Hopefully this gives some idea of ​​how the performance of antivirus programs in Indonesia. Keep in mind, this is only a test result 1 month and only measure the performance of virus detection in the lab only and does not take into account the support services provided. The actual value of the software is not only on its ability to detect the virus and protect users from virus infection, but also whether there is help at computer users experience problems terkdang virus can not be faced by the antivirus program.

Source : http://vaksin.com/, September 14, 2012.

15 Most Dangerous Computer Viruses in History !

Computer security firm Kaspersky Lab, in a birthday-15, recalling the 15 most dangerous computer virus that has attacked and complex computer networks in the world.

Here's 15 most influential dangerous viruses in history, as stated in a press release Kaspersky, Tuesday (17/07/2012):

1. 1986, Brain, PC virus first appeared: the virus is spread by writing code in the boot sector or floppy disk.
2. 1988, the Morris worm infects about 10 percent of computers connected to the internet (about 6,000 computers).
3. 1992, Michelangelo, the first virus which attracted massive media attention.
4. 1995, Concept, the first macro virus.
5. 1999, Melissa, started the era of mass e-mail malware that cause global epidemic.
6. 2003, Slammer, the worm fileless * no file), resulting in a massive epidemic worldwide.
7. 2004, Cabir: Proof-of-Concept for the first Symbian; spread via Bluetooth.
8. 2006, Leap, the first virus Mac OSX
9. 2007, Storm Worm [Zhelatin] pioneered the use of distributed C & C server.
10. 2008, Koobface, malware the first to make up as his target.
11. 2008, Conficker, one of the biggest epidemic in history, infecting corporate, government and home users in over 200 countries.
12. 2010, FakePlayer, Trojan SMS on Android.
13. 2010, Stuxnet, targeted attacks on SCADA systems [Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition] to mark the advent of the era of cyber warfare
14. 2011, Duqu, sophisticated Trojan that gathers intelligence on the target
15. 2012, Flame, highly sophisticated malicious programs that are actively used as a weapon to attack cyber entities in several countries.

 

Kaspersky Lab was founded under the leadership of Eugene Kaspersky and co-founder. Starting from just 20 employees in 1997, Kaspersky Lab developed into the world's largest private security company, with more than 2,400 employees in approximately 200 countries around the world.

Kaspersky Lab develops secure content and threat management solutions, provides IT security for more than 300 million users worldwide, including more than 200,000 companies.

With the expertise of his team, Kaspersky Lab claimed recently managed to uncover some of the most complex malware ever in the world, such as Cabir, Duqu, and most famously, malware Flame.

"Fifteen years is a long time to be in the same business. However, believe it or not, I still love it. I love this team and I love my job."

"In 15 years we worked around the clock every day, analyze and deal with all types of IT threats that have evolved in that time span ranging from cyber hooliganism, cyber criminals, to the cyber war.

"The important thing now is to work together to face the threat of digital. Recent attacks like Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame have showed how fragile the IT infrastructure against military and terrorist threats."

"However, we do everything we are to prevent potential damage that could occur as a result of this attack," said Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab.

Editor: Surya Hidayat Wicaksono
Source : http://tekno.kompas.com/, Thursday, July 19, 2012, 6:30 pm

How to be Facebook Avenger ?

More than 900 million Facebook users account a variety of attacks led to the emergence of Facebook users. Well as Koobface virus attacks, phishing attacks aimed at stealing credentials / account up victims up to the attack of the apps (Facebook app evil) which has many purposes, both to spread itself to as many Facebook contacts victims to deceive their victims with the issue Sopa-issue like the latest and last PIPA or techniques that deceive their victims as if Facebook account and threatened to steal the victim must run the Facebook apps that have been provided. In fact these apps to deceive their victims to request to all its contacts with the ultimate goal of filling the survey form has been prepared. Possibility it aims to obtain financial gain for the author of each survey is completed. (See figure 1)

 Figure 1, the Security Verification Facebook is deceiving its victims to run malicious apps.

All of the above give harm to the victim, from the light-light loss just as ashamed for spreading malicious applications on your friends, loss of data / credentials that are potentially causing other losses including financial loss. According to the observations made by the author, there is a tendency that is often performed by Internet users today who would not want to be bombarded with many credentials. Credentials from Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo mail, Gmail, Internet Banking, Dropbox, and other Instagram. Anyway if you want to use the services of the new service would not want to create a new credentials. Actually the purpose of making these credentials are good, because service providers want to identify the user so as to distinguish with other users so as to provide better service. But this led to too many credentials to remember. Again overlaid advice from security experts who recommend changing passwords regularly on a regular basis. Can you imagine how many credentials that should be recalled and replaced frequently happens that even the owner of the credentials that will not forget the password and security practices even so have backfired. Its owner forgot the password : p. Therefore, many owners use the credentials of the master password for the entire account, supposing Master Key that can be used to open all the doors then a password is used for all credentials. This helps owners do not have to remember the credentials for credentials or have too much to carry a long list of passwords everywhere. But unfortunately if the password is known by the criminals succeed, then he will have access to all accounts. To that should be considered in advance of the beginning of how to handle so many credentials, how do we keep so well protected, but still comfortable and not have to bother carrying segambreng password everywhere. One solution that is safe and I use now is to use a password reminder program where we only have to remember one password password reminder program and the program will store and encrypt all your password data safely. In addition the process also automatically input the password or use the "cut" and "paste", so avoid the risk of being stolen by a keylogger.

If this is the previously mentioned pro-active action from the owner of the credentials, the actual provider of services such as Facebook are also aware of this problem and also proactively providing protection for its members, some of the facilities already provided by Facebook. Such as:
What if my Facebook account was stolen ?
If for some reason your Facebook account stolen and you do not have access to it. You can still do the recovery account. It is very important that you have to do is make sure you can get back to your email account if you join stolen (because it's very important not to use the same password for all your accounts, in particular email account). It's important to have full control over your email account and the authors suggest using an email account that has local contacts and not the recovery abroad, this can help you save on communications costs than have to call contacts abroad (in addition to language barriers and time zones different).

Please go to the site you'll get the picture http://www.facebook.com/help/identify.php?show_form=recover 2 below.

Figure 2, the process of identifying the stolen Facebook accounts

Enter one of the credentials required. Whether email, phone, address or facebook if you do not remember you can also enter your name and your friend's name and you will be taken to the next confirmation screen. From this step, one lesson to be learned by the owner of the account up is important to include some supporting credentials such as a phone number or know your Facebook username. Facebook user name can usually be obtained on your home screen after you login. If the name you have created a Facebook user, you can activate it by clicking the arrow next to the [Home] on the right top corner on the home screen and select [Account Settings] to open the menu "General Account Settings", then click the [Username] and select a username you want. Please remember that you can only select a single username and can not change it anymore.

After the identification process is successful, you will get a verification screen

Click [Reset Password] (Atur Ulang Kata Sandi) and you'll get the next screen where you need to enter a verification code will be sent to your email.

Actually, Facebook also provides a feature "Restoring Accounts Through Friends" if you do lose your email access. But please remember that this feature is not available for all of your Facebook account and there are certain requirements to use the feature. Infomrasi more details about this feature in the Indonesian language can be accessed from http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=228169557197326.

Prevention is better than cure.
If you happen to read this article and your Facebook account is still safe, the authors suggest to perform some security steps below to secure your Facebook account:

1. Avoid using the same password especially your Facebook account and your main email account.
2. Consider using a password reminder program.
3. Use a local email as the primary credentials, if the account is stolen you still have local access provider to contact the account.
4. Enable login notification of new devices. So every time a new device used to access your Facebook account, you will get notified either via email or SMS and can take precautions if your account is accessed from a device that does not belong to you.
5. Activate Secure Browsing / https, it is important to prevent data theft, especially if you frequently access Facebook from public wifi.
6. Of course, to support mail and text message notification you need to enable email and text message notification and the one thing you have to remember, monitor your emails and SMS on a regular basis.

Source : http://vaksin.com/, July 24, 2012.