Awards Guide for Personal Backup Software Self-Protection Tests

The following points were awarded for each test parameter:

• 1 point (+) is awarded if the self-protection system successfully blocked one attack from the list (It is not allowed to lose any processes but retain, or automatically restore, the main functionality).
• 0.5 point (or +/-) is awarded if the product does not include complete self-protection from a specific type of attack.
• And finally, if the product lacks self-protection from a specific type of attack and its main functionality was disabled, it was not awarded any points at all.
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Thus the maximum possible number of points in the test is 33.

Awards

Each product’s test score was calculated as a percentage of the maximum points possible for all tests. Following the testing, the best-performing backup products received awards based on the following criteria:

Download GIF image (500Ñ…500px)	The Platinum Self-Protection Award was awarded if a backup product's self-protection successfully blocked over 98% of attacks.
Download GIF image (500Ñ…500px)	The Gold Self-Protection Award was awarded if a backup product's self-protection successfully blocked over 75% of attacks.
Download GIF image (500Ñ…500px)	The Silver Self-Protection Award was awarded if a backup product's self-protection successfully blocked 50 to 75% of attacks.
Download GIF image (500Ñ…500px)	The Bronze Self-Protection Award was awarded if a backup product's self-protection successfully blocked 25 to 650% of attacks.

 If a backup product’s self-protection blocked less than 25% of all attacks, the product failed the test.