NSS Labs: anti-virus products struggle against exploits

MrBrian · Sep 10, 2010

From http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/08/anti-virus-products-struggle-against-exploits/:

Most anti-virus products designed for use in businesses do a poor job of detecting the exploits that hacked and malicious Web sites use to foist malware, a new report concludes.

Independent testing firm NSS Labs looked at the performance of 10 commercial anti-virus products to see how well they detected 123 client-side exploits, those typically used to attack vulnerabilities in Web browsers including Internet Explorer and Firefox, as well as common desktop applications, such as Adobe Flash, Reader, and Apple QuickTime.
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NSS President Rick Moy said most vendors appear to have chosen to focus on detecting the malicious software variants delivered by these exploits than on blocking the exploits themselves.
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MrBrian · Sep 10, 2010

A different aspect of this report is covered at https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=275414.

MrBrian · Sep 10, 2010

From http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...ng_shows_most_AV_suites_fail_against_exploits:

Only one of the 10 software suites tested detected all 123 exploits and variants, which were designed to attack vulnerabilities in software such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, Firefox, Adobe Acrobat, Apple's QuickTime and others.

The 10 software suites scored vastly different, with one catching all of the exploits at the top end and 29 percent at the low end.
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