ESET Threat Blog

AV-Comparatives, one of the major anti-malware testing organizations, has just announced its retrospective test for November. Retrospective or "frozen" testing involves testing the ability of one or more products to detect threats proactively, using techniques such as advanced heuristics rather than signature detection.
The test used new and unique samples received between 4th and 31st … Read More…

Hello again. I’m back from Washington (not to mention Vienna, Bratislava and York), but I haven’t escaped from detection testing issues. Not that I’m complaining: after many years of campaigning for better testing and better information about testing, it feels very positive that people are prepared to sit through a 60 minute presentation and then … Read More…

I’m in Washington right now, at the CSI conference. It won’t surprise regular readers to know I’m here to talk about testing anti-malware products (again!) So it may not surprise you to know also that I’m particularly interested to see an article by Larry Seltzer that looks at the documents just approved by AMTSO (the Anti-Malware Testing … Read More…

…and it’s still hybrid. Or multi-layered, if you prefer. What anti-malware companies (and malware authors, if it comes to that) are constantly doing is revisiting concepts that have worked before so that they fit the current environment better: there’s nothing wrong with an evolutionary approach, but changing the terminology doesn’t make it revolutionary. So what Larry … Read More…