Cloud on the horizon
Monday March 23, 2009 at 8:23 am CST
Posted by Igor Muttik
Guys from AV-Comparatives have just posted a new scanners’ review on their Web site – http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests:
AV-Comparatives is a non-profit independent test organization based in Austria and they have been running comparative tests for many years but this last one in February 2009 was different for two reasons:
- Firstly, the criteria for getting awards were more stringent than ever. For example, malware older than 9 months did not count towards the awards at all – so only products detecting contemporary trojans and viruses would have done well. Perhaps due to these strict criteria the previous comparative report found 7 products worthy of “Advanced+” rating while now it is only 4 products.
- Secondly, for the first time a product which runs with “in-the-cloud” technology enabled by default (McAfee VirusScan 2009 consumer product with Artemis Technology) was tested side-by-side with traditional scanners.
Everybody at AvertLabs are excited about the great prospects that Artemis cloud technology is opening for security and very happy to see that it did well in the test. We are working hard on enhancing protection based on the cloud-based approach and the only cloud on the horizon (pardon the pun!) is that the adoption of Artemis is going really well for home users (we have more than 30 million customers already!) but in businesses and corporate sector the growth was less pronounced. We urge administrators to look at adopting Artemis quicker and hope that mentioned comparative test would eliminate their concerns – the technology is now mature and stable. But most importantly – it adds to the protection.
P.S. Note that www.AV-Comparatives.org Web site got revamped and has a new look (I personally like it).
– Update March 24 –
For corporate administrators looking for more information on enabling Artemis, see:
How to enable McAfee Artemis Technology in VirusScan Enterprise (KB53732)
March 24th, 2009 at 02:16
As per page – 10 (http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report21.pdf) McAfee (without internet connection) detection rate – 95.2% but with internet connection 99.1% that evinces the power of Artemis technology. Great work…!
March 24th, 2009 at 05:42
Great to see Mcafee back in the top tier after some poor showings in 2008… armed with this new report we should be upgrading to 8.7 with Artemis next month
March 24th, 2009 at 06:05
I agree that these are impressive results, but I take issue with the comment about poor corporate adoption. I am a services consultant, and I have to say that the current options for deploying Artemis technology in the corporate space are one of the key limiting factors. If we had an ePO extension to allow us to tune these settings to all 8.5 and 8.7 customers, rather than the superDAT deployment method, I know that many of my customers are ready to take the plunge. They are just concerned about having little to no manageability and visibility over this powerful new feature.
March 24th, 2009 at 07:01
I would be glad if we as enterprise customers could activate Artemis. However, it seems that the necessary SuperDATs are only available for customers with Platinum support.
So, my question is: When will Artemis technology be available for ALL enterprise customers?
Cheers,
Markus
March 24th, 2009 at 07:41
How does this apply to the Enterprise line of products? Is Artemis being introduced there as well? If so, what’s the product version number?