Trend Micro Internet Security performed best in the NSS tests, catching malware 96.4 percent of the time. Reputation-based detection has become an important new area for antivirus vendors. Trend Micro’s software improved by 23 percent with the system active; McAfee’s improved by 8 percent. NSS tested nine antivirus products by installing the software and directing the PC to a battery of more than 3,000 Web sites that were known to be actively downloading malicious software. The top 4 consumer AV products, as rated by NSS based on the percentage of malware caught, were as follows:”]
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