The growth of malicious programs has steadily increased from an annoyance to a major security threat to all communities of Internet users and businesses. ICSA Labs helps anti-virus product developers address these threats with our Product Certification programs.

ICSA Labs Certified Anti-Virus Products

ICSA Labs is the security industry's central anti-virus product testing and certification facility. Here, you will always find which products are currently certified along with detailed lab reports of the tests that are conducted.

 
If you are looking for a product that does not appear on the Certified Products list, please check the Testing Reports as they may shed some light as to whether the product has failed our testing and has been removed from the site.

Certification Maintenance

Once a product is certified, ICSA Labs will test the product to assure continued compliance with the testing criteria. These Certification Maintenance Tests are carried out at the discretion of ICSA Labs, but not less than quarterly. These tests are conducted using the developer's latest updates without the prior knowledge of the developer. This helps to ensure that every release of the product is capable of meeting the certification criteria, not just a special 'certification' version.

If a product fails either test I or II, the vendor will be given 7 days to supply a fix for the problem, and make this fix publicly available. If this time limit is not met, the product will be removed from the certified products list available on this web site.

Once a product has been decertified, certification can only be regained when the vendor ships, through its normal distribution channel, a version of the product which is certifiable. A special fix just sent to ICSA Labs for testing is not acceptable.