THE EFFICIENCY OF PC PITSTOP’S WHITELISTING WAS DEMONSTRATED IN A RECENT TEST CONDUCTED BY VIRUS BULLETIN

The efficiency of PC Pitstop’s whitelisting was shown in the most current virus bulletin test. In both preventative and reactive malware detection, PC Pitstop is head and shoulders above the competition. The 17th of February, 2016, in Sioux City, Iowa — PC Pitstop, the company that creates the only commercially available whitelisting security technology, has just announced that the modern threat protection software it sells, known as pc matic, has received the highest possible score on the rap (reactive and proactive) test in the most recent vb100 comparative review. PC-matic surpassed all other competitors, in both proactive and reactive techniques, with a score that was an average of 92.5 percent cumulatively (competition lagged between 4.5 percent and 67.4 percent behind). When it comes to preventing and responding to computer security issues, pc pitstop’s whitelisting approach is superior to its competitors’ blacklisting approach. This conclusion was reached after virus bulletin analyzed the ability of 21 different solutions to detect millions of malicious files. The results demonstrated that pc pitstop’s approach is superior. The whitelisting strategy used by pc matic was praised by virus bulletin for delivering “excellent detection rates.” Application control, also known as whitelisting, is discussed as an essential component of endpoint security in a recent report by Forrester. The report states that “it’s no mystery that antivirus (av) technologies are fighting a losing battle against an increasingly sophisticated malware threat landscape… Because of this, those who work in security need to think about adopting an alternative strategy, one that does not only depend on a signature blacklist that is becoming more difficult to administer. Application control, in all of its guises, provides endpoint security with a much-required value proposition. Testing facilities, such as Virus Bulletin, put a greater importance on avoiding the blocking of benign files (also known as false positives) than they do on correctly detecting malicious files (false negatives). The virus bulletin technique has a zero tolerance for false positives, which means that a product cannot pass the vb100 certification process if it has even one false positive out of a million. “at the same time, a product may make the incorrect identification of hundreds, if not thousands, of defective files as good files with no impact on ratings and certification. “We see this as a flaw in testing methodology,” said dodi glenn, vice president of cybersecurity at pc pitstop. “where these tests see a flaw in our.1 percent error rate or 99.9 percent whitelist accuracy rate, (which creates a false positive), we see this as a flaw in testing methodology,” said dodi glenn. “while it is acceptable – there is not a whitelisting technology like ours that stops all of the bad files and holds possibly good files till they are further assessed.” “it is understandable – there is no technology like ours that prevents all of the bad files.” Nothing that our customers want is hindered in any way, which is a significant improvement above the normal ineffectiveness of malware remedies. PC Matic uses a blacklist for scan and clean and a whitelist for real-time protection. The blacklist is updated every day via community sourcing, and the whitelist is used for real-time protection. When a file is prevented from being opened because it is not on the whitelist, a sample of the file is sent to the servers of PC Pitstop, where it is examined by a research team within twenty-four hours to determine if it is a new virus strain or whether the whitelist needs to be updated. In comparison to the risk of letting a potentially harmful file onto the computer where it may cause corruption, the possibility of a false positive occurring with pc matic is a one-time, small nuisance. When opposed to a strategy that uses blacklists, which causes interference with the user’s computer, this design has a less negative effect on the consumer. The current spike in malicious software has made it difficult for standard antivirus programs to keep up with the threat. Because typical blacklist detections may be readily sidestepped with only a few basic adjustments to the virus, this situation is a never-ending game of cat and mouse. Whitelisting restricts application execution to just those that have been validated as safe and trustworthy by an administrator. As a result, these problems are essentially eliminated. about the PC pitstop PC Pitstop has a proactive whitelisting strategy, which stops viruses, Trojan horses, and ransomware from infecting computers and encrypting user data. Pcmatic protects over a million of the most security-aware people; pcmatic pro protects major businesses and government organizations; and pcmatic msp supports both smbs and msps. pcmatic msp also helps small and medium-sized businesses. Whereas some solutions seek to prevent an ever-expanding list of all known cybercriminals while allowing everyone else access, PC Pitstop searches exclusively for programs that have been verified as safe. 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