AV-Comparatives - Proactive protection against the WannaCry ransomware \ Ochrona przed WannaCry

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The

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ransomware has been a major news story over the last few days. It has infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide (mostly in

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), including some well-known companies and institutions. All the programs in our public Main Test Series now detect the WannaCry malware samples by means of signatures, but we decided to find out which of these programs would have blocked the malware proactively, i.e. before the the outbreak started and the malware samples became known. We ran a proactive protection test, i.e. we used vulnerable Windows 7 systems with definitions prior to May 12th. A WannaCry malware sample was then executed on offline systems. The list below shows which of the tested programs would have protected the system, and which did not.


Adaware Pro Security Protected

Avast Free Antivirus Protected

AVG Free Antivirus Protected

AVIRA Antivirus Pro Protected

Bitdefender Internet Security Protected

BullGuard Internet Security Protected

CrowdStrike Falcon Prevent Protected

Emsisoft Anti-Malware Protected

eScan Corporate 360 Protected

ESET Internet Security Not protected

F-Secure SAFE Protected

Fortinet FortiClient Not protected

Kaspersky Internet Security Protected

McAfee Internet Security Not protected

Microsoft Security Essentials Not protected

Panda Free Antivirus Protected

Seqrite Endpoint Security Protected

Tencent PC Manager Protected

Symantec Norton Security Protected

Trend Micro Internet Security Protected

VIPRE Advanced Security for Home Protected

As can be seen above, a majority of these products protected against this ransonware, but over 200,000 systems worldwide were compromised by it nonetheless. New variants might appear, and results for the next outbreak could look different. Users are

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to keep their systems patched, enable AV protection (i.e. do not disable features) and keep it up-to-date, as well as practising safe computing.

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