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CiscoSecurityAgentAntivirus

Signature-basedantivirusproductshavelongbeenthemainstayofendpointsecurity.   Althoughnewformsofmalwarerequirebehavior-basedprotectionforeffectiveday- zeroprotection,antiviruscontinuestobeavaluablecomponentofendpointprotection   strategies.Theprimaryvalueofsignature-basedantivirusisprovidingconfidence   thatmalwarecanberemovedfromtheendpoint,sincethemalwarewasidentifiedby   name.Althoughbehavior-basedcontrolsaretheprimarymeansofstoppingmalware   attacksonendpoints,signature-basedantivirusplaysanimportantroleinidentifying   themalware,allowingahighlevelofconfidenceinmalwareremoval.

CiscoSecurityAgentistheleadingbehavior-basedendpointsecurityproduct.   ClamAV™iswidelyusedonUNIXorLinuxe-mailservers,scrubbingthee-maildata   flowsformalwareandprotectingmillionsofWindowsdesktopsystems.CiscoSecurity   AgentVersion6.0nowincludestheopensourceClamAVantivirusenginetoprotect   MicrosoftWindowsdesktopsatnoadditionalcost.Thiscombinationoffersacomplete   endpointprotectionsolutionthataccuratelyidentifiesmalware,preventsmalware   execution,andquarantinesordeletesmalwarefromthesystem.

ClamAVisanopensourceproduct,providingstrongvirusscanninganddetection   capabilities.TheClamAVdatabaseincludesmorethan200,000uniquesignatures,   coveringmanydifferenttypesofmalware:trojans,downloaders(filedroppers),bots,   spyware,worms,andothers.  

ClamAVhasareputationforveryfastresponsetimewhennewvir Asaresult,itscoreswellinpublicantiviruscomparisons.

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TheShadowserverFoundationisavolunteerorganizationthatgathers,tracks,and   reportsonmalwareactivityobservedontheInternet.Theinformationthefoundation   gathersispubliclysharedwithsecurityresearchersandvendors. TheShadowserverFoundationpublishesdaily,weekly,andmonthlystatisticsabout   virusdetectioneffectivenessformanyantivirusproducts.Asthismonthlychartshows,   ClamAVhasaveryhighdegreeofmalwaredetectionaccuracy. TheintegrationofClamAVintoCiscoSecurityAgentprovidesanidealcomplement   ofsecuritycapabilitiestoprovideacompleteendpointsecuritysolution:  aonpndteroioctrfnkmonwondnaday-zerothreatsticafitienId  ginO-nedamdnsacnn  ntdeIioaticifoorfonstikt  laMquawareininrantdedgnanoelit  amdeganartnezilrtpog,inntmere,ciyoctnadnplorolseC

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Vendor AntiVirus Vexira VirusBuster F-Secure Norman F-Port6 Clam DrWeb AVG7 Avast McAfee F-Prot Panda Kaspersky BitDefender VBA32 NOD32 Source: http://shadowserver.org

Detected 1204953 1203678 1203471 1203244 1203274 1202403 1201805 1201442 1200639 1199011 1185278 1176390 1138986 1036869 1036210 994177 798148

Total 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800 1229800

Percent 97.98% 97.88% 97.86% 97.84% 97.84% 97.77% 97.72% 97.69% 97.63% 97.50% 96.38% 95.66% 92.62% 84.31% 84.26% 80.84% 64.90%