VBA32 is notable for the fact that it is so far the only antivirus in Russia, besides Kaspersky Anti-Virus, that has a certificate from FSTEC (Federal Service for Technical and Export Control) for the absence of undeclared capabilities or software bookmarks. This gives Virusblockade products the fundamental ability to protect information that constitutes a Russian state secret. Other anti-virus developers have FSTEC certificates for compliance with technical specifications, that is, “certificate that they are anti-viruses,” as Denis Zenkin, marketing director of Perimetrix, explained to CNews." />

Belarusian antivirus is going to move Kaspersky

The Belarusian developer of VBA32 products “Virusblockade” would like to win 5% of the Russian antivirus market next year.
VBA32 antivirus, also known as “Virus Blockade,” is set to capture 5% of the Russian antivirus market next year. The head of the Russian Virusblockade project, Alexander Bagmet, spoke about this today.
Bagmet admits now is not the best time to announce ambitious market plans and says the timing of the crisis was unintentional. However, he believes that, thanks to the efforts of the domestic law enforcement system, a catastrophic drop in demand for licensed software will not occur during the crisis:
VBA32 is notable for the fact that it is so far the only antivirus in Russia, besides Kaspersky Anti-Virus, that has a certificate from FSTEC (Federal Service for Technical and Export Control) for the absence of undeclared capabilities or software bookmarks. This gives Virusblockade products the fundamental ability to protect information that constitutes a Russian state secret. Other anti-virus developers have FSTEC certificates for compliance with technical specifications, that is, “certificate that they are anti-viruses,” as Denis Zenkin, marketing director of Perimetrix, explained to CNews.

In addition, antivirus analysts noted the good performance of Virusblockade products - in particular, their low impact on loading time operating system and to work office applications(“golden” awards from the Anti-Malware portal in relevant categories in 2008)

The manufacturer of the same name, Virusblockade, was founded in 1997 by Vyacheslav Koleda and Gennady Reznikov in Minsk. According to Alexander Bagmet, the founders are still the owners of the company. It employs about 30 developers.

It is believed that Virusblockade products protect the absolute majority (“as they say in the company, 99%”) of computers in Belarusian government institutions, including the Ministries of Defense and Internal Affairs and the payment systems of the National Bank. Speaking about this, the Russian representative of the company insists that the market dominance of Virusblockade is not due to any marketing preferences provided to the national antivirus manufacturer in Belarus. In Russia, VBA32 is installed in the State Public Scientific and Technical Library.

In all countries of presence (except for Belarus, these are Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Latvia, Poland and Romania), the activity of Virus Blockade was limited to the corporate and government segment. In Russia, meanwhile, “Virusblockade” plans to initially conquer retail. At the same time, Russia is the first (“not counting a small experience in Germany”) country where Virusblockade will launch its boxed products for end users: VBA32 Personal and VBA32 Workstation.

To enter the market, the representative office has chosen a distribution model of promotion. In the European part of Russia, the distributor was the CPS company, in the Urals - the Yekaterinburg CIFT.

Leading figures in the antivirus market were very skeptical about the Russian Virus Blockade plans. Oleg Gudilin, head of the strategic marketing department at Kaspersky Lab (47% of the market in 2007), told CNews that “Vba32’s chances of gaining a significant market share are quite low. At the same time, you need to be aware that for niche players, which include VirusBlokada, such a task, as a rule, is not set.”

Along the way, Gudilin called the presence of a FSTEC certificate, indicating the absence of undeclared capabilities, a serious competitive advantage of Virusblokada antivirus products.

Product manufacturer NOD32 greeted the arrival of the Belarusians without much optimism. Anna Alexandrova, ESET's marketing director (14% of the market in 2007), believes that Virusblockade chose "an extremely unfavorable time to enter the market." Now the situation is controlled by competing leaders, “pushing the “second echelon” players” further into the shadows. “Getting even one percent of the market for a new vendor seems to be a task of increased complexity,” she concluded.

The volume of the anti-virus market in Russia in 2007 ranged from $127 million (according to Anti-Malware) to $135 million (according to Kaspersky Lab calculations).

1. About the company

The company "VirusBlokAda" was created in May 1997 in the form of a "Limited Liability Company", in 2000 it was re-registered in the form of a "Company with Additional Liability". It included developers antivirus program Vba32 (“BlockAda Virus”), which has existed as a commercial product since 1994.

On December 21, 2006, the company received a certificate of compliance with the quality management system for design, production and technical support software product requirements of the Belarusian standard STB ISO 9001-2009 and German DIN EN ISO 9001: 2008.

ALC "VirusBlokAda" is the only developer of anti-virus software in the Republic of Belarus software and carries out its activities in full compliance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus.

The main strategic goal of VirusBlokAda ALC is the development and maintenance of national software for protection against exposure malware.

Within the framework of the high technology park, the goal of VirusBlokAda ALC is:

• In the Republic of Belarus - development, implementation and operation of software designed to protect against the effects of malicious programs in industrial and other organizations of the republic to replace similar imported products;
• In the world - export of national software developed by VirusBlokAda ALC, designed to protect against the effects of malware, capable of competing with the best world analogues.

Activities:

• development and maintenance of the Vba32 complex (“VirusBlokAda”) software for protection against the effects of malware;
• development and maintenance of systems to ensure the security of organizations and enterprises from the effects of malware and computer viruses;

2. Product

Complex Vba32.

It consists of software protection against the effects of malware and computer viruses, developed and maintained ODO "VirusBlokAda".OOO "VirusBlokAda" received certificates for compliance with STB ISO 9001-2001, DIN EN ISO 9001 standards. The complex was certified by the State Center for Information Security under the President of the Republic of Belarus (certificate of conformity No. BY/112 03.2.3 IV 0015).

The Vba32 complex is designed to protect a wide range of objects distributed under the following headings:

• For personal computer

For workstation online

For file servers

Automated management and update

Protecting mail systems

For terminal servers

Internet Gateway Protection

Utilities

Accordingly, there are products - each for its own range of work.

So, the BlockAda antivirus is a product of the Belarusian brothers, judging by the reviews in the articles, the antivirus slows down a little more than Doctor Web or Avast. The remarkable thing about this antivirus is that it detected a virus packaged by Armadillo, which was news. Upon attempt third party application unload the antivirus from memory, the antivirus actively resists, while the attacking process is tightly hung (although the antivirus still crashes). This antivirus finds viruses from the 90s, apparently the virus databases are quite extensive and some old viruses are included there, just in case (there is no point in including everything, there used to be viruses that simply wished Happy New Year :). It was also found that the antivirus is poorly able to recognize New Viruses.

3. Main technologies used

The anti-virus core of the Vba32 complex effectively uses a powerful processor emulator and a high-precision expert analyzer. Features of the emulator implementation (including dynamic code translation) make it possible to significantly increase the speed of anti-virus processing compared to foreign analogues. A two-level check optimization system minimizes delays when working with files, which also provides advantages in the speed of anti-virus processing. The expert analyzer allows you to effectively detect new modifications of malware based on characteristic code fragments. The MalwareScope technology, invented by VirusBlokAda, increases the reliability of detection of unknown malware and greatly facilitates the work of virus analysts. The novelty of MalwareScope technology lies in the fact that its use makes it possible to detect unknown representatives of known malware families without updating antivirus databases.

The company's activities are based on unique experience in combating malware and computer viruses. Constant analysis of everything new that appears on the virus and anti-virus scene allows us to improve the Vba32 Complex, which provides reliable protection for everyone who uses it.

4. Use in educational institutions

Since the VirusBlokAda antivirus is a Belarusian product, according to the legislation of this country, all state. institutions are equipped with Belarusian products if Belarus has these products of its own production. And so a large number of institutions, including educational ones, are equipped with the VirusBlokAda antivirus free of charge.

The products of this company are provided to other countries on a commercial basis, but I would like to note that the price of their products is not so high. After reading several articles, I realized that the quality/price ratio for this product is at a high level. Cheaper than Kaspersky, and gets the job done better than a row other good antiviruses.

5. Conclusions

Quite a good antivirus, you can put it on a par with such antiviruses as Doctor Web and Avast, and Avast will also be distinguished by its freeness :) The antivirus's foresight when working with packagers does it credit, but the heuristics let us down, hence the conclusion - update your antivirus more often . The antivirus’s resistance to its own unloading, although rather weak, is still a plus for the antivirus; besides, I think the developers will fix this problem, and their protector will become even more reliable and attractive to users.

Prices:

Anti-virus protection of a local personal computer running Windows

(price in US dollars)

Anti-virus protection of Windows-based workstations

(price in US dollars)

	number of computers / duration
	1-3 computers
	4-5 computers
	6-10 computers
	11-15 computers
	16-20 computers
	21-25 computers
	26-50 computers
	51-100 computers
	101-150 computers
	151-250 computers
	251-500 computers
	501-1000 computers
	more than 1000 computers

Thanks to the capabilities of the Vba32 antivirus, you will be able to successfully resist computer viruses, protect your stay on the Internet and use e-mail.

Antivirus Vba32 Personal has a powerful heuristic analyzer, thanks to which you will be protected from the effects of new viruses or modifications.

A large database of known malware, as well as regularly released antivirus add-ons, will provide the best protection Your computer.

Main functions of the Vba32 Personal Antivirus program

Anti-virus file protection

• Vba32 Monitor provides permanent anti-virus protection for your computer.
• Vba32 Scanner implements anti-virus processing at the user's request.
• A console scanner for Windows/DOS is used to launch anti-virus processing of files from the command line.

Anti-virus mail protection
The use of Vba32 anti-virus mail modules allows you to fully protect your computer from the penetration of malware and viruses through the system Email. Vba32 Mail filter provides protection for any mail clients, receiving messages via POP3 and IMAPv4 protocols ( Outlook Express, The Bat!, MS Outlook and others).

Internet antivirus protection

• Vba32 Script filter provides Microsoft antivirus protection Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook Express, as well as any other applications that use technology to execute scripts Microsoft Windows Script Host (WSH). Vba32 Script filter intercepts executable scripts and performs anti-virus processing. If a malicious script is detected, its execution is blocked.
• Vba32 Antidialer is a Vba32 antivirus and provides protection against unauthorized connection attempts remote access with unknown people telephone numbers. Vba32 Anti-dialer blocks unauthorized attempts to establish a remote access connection to a “foreign” provider. Such connections are usually created by so-called porn dialers, as well as Trojans and other malicious programs, and can entail significant financial costs for using telephone communications.

Anti-virus quarantine

• Anti-virus quarantine is a special storage in which infected and suspicious files are saved. The files placed in it are saved in a special way and cannot be launched in the usual way, which guarantees the safety of your computer.

SendLogs utility

• The SendLogs utility is designed to collect technical information and report files of all Vba32 components with their subsequent sending to VirusBlokAda specialists or saving to disk. This information facilitates the technical support process and speeds up the response of developers to user requests.

Vba32 antivirus update

• The VirusBlokAda company constantly monitors the emergence of new viruses and promptly releases additions to anti-virus databases and updates to software modules. To maintain a high level of protection for your computer from the effects of new malware and computer viruses, it is recommended to periodically update Vba32. Vba32 updates are necessary to obtain the latest additions to the anti-virus databases and new versions of Vba32 program modules.

Security of Vba32 antivirus

• The security of the Vba32 complex is ensured by the use of password protection for settings and actions.

Note. To receive a trial key for 30 days, send a request in free form by email [email protected]. In the subject of the letter, indicate Evaluation key for VBA32 Personal.