Oct. 26, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ProSecure(TM), the specialized network security brand by NETGEAR®, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced the results of an in-depth, independent lab test of the ProSecure UTM family of Unified Threat Management (UTM) Appliances. Testing by a partnership of AV-Test GmbH and The Tolly Group, premier independent IT test labs, focused on the ability of the solution to stop malware and viruses - traditionally the Achilles heel of security solutions for the growing business market.

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"This is a revealing study on the security effectiveness of the UTM products aimed at small- and medium-businesses - and security effectiveness is typically very difficult to measure by end users," said Kevin Tolly, founder of The Tolly Group.

The tests measured security effectiveness against 3,583 virus and malware samples from the WildList Organization International's latest list of viruses "propagating in the wild" and 60,000 zoo malware samples from AV-Test GmbH. The results were as follows:

--  ProSecure - blocked 100 percent of WildList samples and 90 percent of
zoo malware samples
--  Fortinet - blocked 81 percent of WildList samples and 29 percent of zoo
malware samples
--  SonicWALL - blocked between 75 to 81 percent of WildList samples and 35
to 70 percent of zoo malware samples, depending on model

--  Watchguard - blocked 32 percent of WildList samples and 20 percent of
zoo malware samples

The ProSecure UTM series can deliver these superior results because they employ more than one million AV signatures, while the competition provides between 3,000 and 60,000 signatures. In addition to providing superior threat protection, the ProSecure UTM products also provide a better approach to spam filtering and URL blocking. The ProSecure UTM series employs a hybrid in-the-cloud approach for spam analysis and URL filtering. Against spam, this approach looks at both the content and header of emails for spam determination. Most other UTMs in this category look only at email headers or rely purely on simple Real-time Blackhole Lists (RBLs) for anti-spam protection, which results in many false positives/negatives.