BitDefender Virus engine: Facts & figures
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This document gives some of the key facts about the BitDefender Anti-Virus engine and why you can rely on its technology to protect your network.
About the company - Bitdefender:
- Division of Softwin
- Founded in 1990
- Over 500 employees
- ISO9001 certified
- Headquartered in Bucharest, Romania
- Offices in Tettnang, Germany and Barcelona, Spain, and present in over 32 countries.
BitDefender anti virus engine facts and figures:
- The BitDefender teams has one of the shortest response times to viruses (it was the first to release antidotes against viruses such as Win32.Bagle, Win32.Netsky, Win32.My Doom)
- Continuously updated database of virus signatures, currently 75,000
- Scans in more than 35 major archive types
- Round-the-clock anti-virus lab allowing for immediate response
- The third product of its kind in the world to receive ICSA certification for Windows XP
- The first to receive the European Information Society Technology Prize for groundbreaking innovation by the European Commission and Academies
- Exceptionally high speed performance and low memory consumption due to multithreaded architecture and optimized algorithms (in fact Bitdefender is one of the fastest, if not the fastest, scanning engines)
- The BitDefender engine has opened and distributed architecture that allows for different scanning engines to deal with different types of files and malware – thus increasing the effectiveness and detection rate
- The Bitdefender engine has been developed to have a high detection rate of all types of malware not only viruses.
Industry certifications:
- Certification from the International Computer Security Association (ICSA)
- Check Mark Certified by West Coast Labs
- Numerous Virus Bulletin 100% Awards
- CheckVir by antivirus.hu
- Company is ISO 9001 certified.
Response times
BitDefender boasts fast anti-virus response times. For example, it was the fastest to release an update for the W32/Sober.C virus. The BitDefender Response Team was also the fastest to post an update to stop viruses like Win32.Badtrans.B, Win32.Gone.A, Win32.SirCam, Win32.Klez, Win32.Worm.Benjamin and Win32.LovGate C viruses. The below table shows the response times (CET timezone) of AV companies to the outbreak of the W32/Sober.C virus (discovered on 2003-12-20 at 03:00 h).
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Company
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Response time
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BitDefender
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2003-12-20 at
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Kaspersky
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2003-12-20 at
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F-Prot (Frisk)
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2003-12-20 at
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F-Secure
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2003-12-20 at
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2003-12-20 at
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eSafe (Alladin)
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2003-12-20 at
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Trend Micro
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2003-12-20 at
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AVG (Grisoft)
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2003-12-20 at
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AntiVir (H+BEDV)
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2003-12-20 at
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Symantec
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2003-12-21 at
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Avast! (Alwil)
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2003-12-21 at
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Sophos
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2003-12-21 at
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Panda AV
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2003-12-21 at
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McAfee/NAI
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2003-12-22 at
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Ikarus
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2003-12-22 at
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Awards
The Bitdefender engine has been awarded by computer magazines and business organizations all around the world.
- 07 May 2003 - BitDefender awarded by c’t magazin für computer technik
- 02 April 2003 - BitDefender wins testing for anti-virus protection; BitDefender was chosen by the Personal Computer Magazine in Netherlands as the best solution for home PC protection
- 18 December 2002 - BitDefender Professional was named "product of the year 2002" in the "Romania CHIP Awards 2002" which were based on readers’ vote, objectively screening the satisfaction degree of the publication’s IT&C users
- 25 September 2002 - The European IT Oscar goes to BitDefender; nomination as a Winner of the greatest European competition for IT excellence and innovation, The European Information Society Technologies Prize.
