Testing protections against web threats

Abstract

The number of web threats increased in large measure in the last few years. It is not related to the PC based threats only, new operating systems of handy devices are in danger as well. In this paper testing methods of web threat protections are discussed. A unique anti-malware testing procedure has been developed under the aegis of CheckVir Lab. This testing procedure can provide actual comparative test results of anti-malware solutions automatically for the IT user community on the web and in addition other manually or semi-automatically executed tests can provide more details about the knowledge of the tested products as well. These methods can provide results soon after the new version of a particular version of an anti-malware solution is released. The real-time automatic testing is based on a set of dedicated PCs continuously checking the possible updates and they are dealing with executing the predefined testing jobs.