Antivirus suites struggle to defend against recent exploit-based attacks

[King Grub]

NSS Labs... looked at the ability of 13 antivirus suites to defend unpatched systems against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s XML Core Services (CVE-2012-1889) and in Internet Explorer 8.0 (CVE-2012-1875), both made public in June.

Despite the fact that both were patched in June and July and should be on the radar of antivirus companies, only four products – from Trend Micro, Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and Avast - were able to offer full protection against the test exploits NSS Labs crafted to use against the vulnerabilities.

http://news.techworld.com/security/3...y%20newsletter

[thanhtai2009]

Trend Micro always passed Nss tests. Lol

[whitestar_999]

i expected kaspersky & avast based on their performance in MRG Flash tests but didn't expect trend micro & certainly not mcafee.

[qakbot]

Originally Posted by thanhtai2009

Trend Micro always passed Nss tests. Lol

Good point :-) Is NSS Labs a subsidiary of Trend Micro ?

[thanhtai2009]

Originally Posted by qakbot

Good point :-) Is NSS Labs a subsidiary of Trend Micro ?

it's an independent test lab, but read all other reports showed that Trend micro always at 1st place. Sorry if there're something wrong

[RejZoR]

Well, maybe Trend Micro is just very good at that. Every vendor has something that it is really good at.

[whitestar_999]

^^+1.maybe instead of detection trend micro focuses more on system vulnerabilities assuming that most of its clients(business mostly i think)are more vulnerable to exploit-based attacks.