ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security, has once again received the Advanced + award in testing the capacity of proactive anti-virus programs. It's already 12 + Advanced Certificate awarded to the company Kaspersky Lab tests in investigating the effectiveness of antivirus solutions detect and remove new unknown threats. No other program is not reached after the prize Advanced + so often.

AV-Comparatives test regularly the most popular antivirus programs. Among the solutions, which participated in the recent study included a proactive companies such as AVIRA, ESET, F-Secure, G-Data, McAfee, and Symantec. AV-Comparatives has proved the possibility of 16 popular anti-virus solutions in detecting and dealing with sudden attacks of new, hitherto unknown threats. Each product can have one of the three certification "Advanced +", "Advanced" and "Standard". Advanced + receive a prize only products of the highest efficiency, meaning that they cope well with the detection of new threats and also generate the least false alarms. Tests rely on proactive solutions to the possibility of withdrawing the verifiable signature database update for a few days. AV-Comparatives thus examines how the programs deal with unknown threats that have emerged at a time when tested programs do not have access to the update.
ESET's ambition is to be the only manufacturer that tests the AV-Comparatives always gets the highest marks (Advanced +) for testing proactive threat detection. Impressive results show that ESET has always placed a strong emphasis on the use of heuristic mechanisms to combat malicious applications - says Adreas Clementi, founder and head of the research team AV-Comparatives

Programs ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security, to detect new threats using advanced artificial intelligence and heuristic methods of analysis. If the solution detects a suspicious file runs in a separate secure environment. Thus it is possible to verify the operation of dangerous code without compromising the operating system at risk. Checked the code is being investigated for suspicious behavior and classified as a threat or secure content.