Kaspersky Lab
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | Moscow, Russia (1997) |
| Founder(s) | Eugene Kaspersky |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Area served | Computer security |
| Key people | Eugene Kaspersky Natalia Kasperskaya |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Products | Security |
| Revenue | US$85.3 million ▲76% (2006)[1] |
| Net income | US$67.3 million ▲69% (2006)[1] |
| Employees | 600 (August 2007) |
| Website | www.kaspersky.com |
Kaspersky Lab (pronounced /kæˈspɜrski/; Russian: Лаборатория Касперского, Laboratoriya Kasperskovo) is a computer security company, co-founded by Natalia Kasperskaya 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, China, 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, Borderware, FrontBridge, G-Data, Netasq, and others. Altogether, more than 120 companies are licensing technology from Kaspersky.
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Products
The current line of Kaspersky home-user products consists of Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 2010, Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) 2010, and Kaspersky Mobile Security (KMS)[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]
References
- ^ a b "http://www.cnews.ru/news/line/index.shtml?2007/07/23/259875". CNews. http://www.cnews.ru/news/line/index.shtml?2007/07/23/259875. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ About Us
- ^ "Kaspersky now available as 2010". Kaspersky Lab. July 11, 2009. http://www.kaspersky.com/kis_latest_versions.
- ^ "35% of PC users in Europe prefer Kaspersky Lab antivirus solutions". Kaspersky Lab. March 06, 2009. http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/news?id=207575765.
- ^ "Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Certifications". Kaspersky Lab. http://support.kaspersky.com/kis2009/cert.
- ^ Anti-Virus comparative February 2008
- ^ Retrospective / ProActive - Test May 2008
- ^ Results and comments - matousec.com
- ^ Anti-rootkit tests | Anti-Malware Test Lab
- ^ Anti-Malware Solutions Test Results | Anti-Malware Test Lab
- ^ Self-protection test | Anti-Malware Test Lab
- ^ "Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 receives two top awards in testing conducted by the British magazine PC Pro". Kaspersky Labs. 2007-04-05. http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/news?id=207575604.
- ^ "Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 (Full Product)". PC World Magazine. 2005-01-25. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,124493-page,1/article.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ "Zango tries, fails to sue its way out from under the "spyware" label". ars technica. August 30, 2007. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070830-zango-tries-fails-to-sue-its-way-out-from-under-the-spyware-label.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-05.
