Kaspersky Lab (pronounced /kæˈspɜrski/; Russian: Лаборатория Касперского, Laboratoriya Kasperskovo) is a computer security company, co-founded by Natalya Kaspersky and Eugene Kaspersky in 1997, offering anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, and anti-intrusion products. Kaspersky Lab is a privately held company headquartered in Moscow, Russia with regional offices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Japan, People's Republic of China, South Korea and the USA[2].
In 2005, Red Herring magazine listed Kaspersky among "Red Herring 100 Europe", a selection of the 100 private companies in Europe and Israel that it considered to play a leading role in innovation and technology.
The Kaspersky Anti-Virus engine also powers products or solutions by other security vendors, such as Check Point, Bluecoat, Juniper Networks, Sybari (now acquired by Microsoft), Netintelligence, GFI Software, F-Secure, Clearswift, FrontBridge, G-Data, Netasq, and others. Altogether, more than 120 companies are licensing technology from Kaspersky.
Products
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010
The current line of Kaspersky home-user products consists of Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 2010, Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) 2010, Kaspersky Mobile Security (KMS) and AVZ Antiviral Toolkit [3] . Kaspersky products are widely used throughout Europe[4] and Asia.
Kaspersky Lab products are available via retail stores such as Best-Buy, PC-World, Currys and online through the official Kaspersky eStore or Amazon.com and other retailers.
The latest 2009 line of Kaspersky products are certified for Windows Vista and are multi-core optimized[5]
Independent assessments
The anti-virus software testing group AV-Comparatives gave the Windows XP version of Kaspersky AV an "Advanced+" rating (its highest) in both its February 2008 on-demand detection test (with the fourth highest detection rate among 16 products tested)[6] However, in the Retrospective/Proactive Test May 2008, Kaspersky received the "Standard" rating, detecting 21% of new malware with 1-month old signatures and receiving a substantial amount of false positives.[7]
The firewall included in Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 got a "Very Good" rating in Matousec's Firewall challenge [8], with a result of 85%. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 has achieved a 6.5 result out of 8 in the Anti Malware Labs rootkit detection test [9]. It has also achieved a 31 out of 33 detection of polymorphic viruses [10] and a 97% result in the self-protection test.[11] In 2007 Kaspersky Internet Security 7 received an award from the British magazine PC Pro and also won a place in its "A List".[12]
In addition, Kaspersky has almost passed all Virus Bulletin comparative tests since August 2003 (Failed: June 7, Dec 07 and June 8 http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?vendor=VE15). According to PC World magazine, Kaspersky anti-virus software provides the fastest updates for new virus and security threats in the industry.[13] In the latest[when?] AV-Comparatives test[citation needed], the Technical Release build of Kaspersky 2009 achieved a nearly 85% proactive detection rate, when including both heuristic analysis and HIPS.
Litigation
In May 2007, adware distributor Zango filed a lawsuit against Kaspersky Lab, accusing it of trade libel for blocking the installation of Zango software. In August, the court ruled that the Communications Decency Act granted immunity to Kaspersky.[14]
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