There has been lately a lot of attention given to proactive antivirus defense methods, which allow the antivirus to resist types and modifications of malware not yet known. Such a direction of development is the most perspective on the market, and almost every developer tries to highlight that it is his/her proactive defense that is the best. Moreover, attempts are made to contrast in a way the newest proactive technologies with the old classic reactive ones, which are based on the signature methods of malware detection and demand permanent and often upgrading of the antivirus databases

Quick and active development of online criminal activity has led to appearance of complex modifications of viruses, worms, spy programs and other malicious code. To be created, more sophisticated methods are used: rootkits that hide the presence of malware in the system, packaging, encoding technologies, as well as methods that initiate destruction of protection system.

Rootkit technologies are recently becoming more and more popular among virus makers. The reason is obvious – the possibility to hide the malware and its components from the users and antivirus programs. It's not difficult to finds open-source code of  , which certainly leads to a wide usage of this technology in different Trojan or spy programs, such as spyware/adware, keyloggers, so on.

Nowadays, in the field of the antivirus industry different proactive technologies are worked on and tested, as well as the reaction speed and the detection quality are increased. At the same time, the frequency of appearance of new types and modifications of malware is also increasing very quickly. Unfortunately, no antivirus developper can give the user a 100% protection. Infection happen often enough, and there is no Internet user in the world whose computer has not at least once been infected.In this article we intend to inform you about the results of independent Antivirus software tests, prepared and organized by the participants of the project Anti-Malware.ru