ESET today announced that its software solution NOD32 Cyber Security Pro for Mac OS X has been successfully benchmarked by an independent laboratory AV-Comparatives. Information about this is contained in a press release.
Experts AV-Comparatives tested eight anti-virus products for the operating system OS X. The solutions were evaluated on a number of parameters, including reliability, functionality and usability.
In the course of the test to a computer connected USB-drive with malware - 65 samples of the most common threats for the Mac. Experts say that all of them have been observed in the wild in 2014 and can not be blocked by most OS X Mavericks.
Most involved in the test antivirus products can detect and threats for Windows. To check this, experts AV-Comparatives repeated the procedure with 500 samples of malicious software for this operating system. Finally, in checking for false positives were used 100 trusted applications.
«ESET NOD32 Cyber Security Pro provides effective protection against malicious software. It is distinguished by an elaborate user interface. The main program window provides easy access to the main functions and information. Decision ESET NOD32 found in our test an excellent result, identified as Mac, and Windows-threat, "- said in a final report, AV-Comparatives.
It is reported that ESET NOD32 Cyber Security Pro showed the best performance in the test, to detect 100% of the samples of malware for Mac and bypassing products such as AVIRA Free Antivirus for Mac (91%), Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac (98%) and Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac (97%).
In addition, ESET NOD32 Cyber Security Pro has detected all threats to the Windows operating system and did not allow any false positives.