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New Ad-Aware Offers Behavioral Detection
With the latest release of the popular anti-malware tool Ad-Aware, Lavasoft has added what is being referring to as "Genotype," a heuristic-based behavioral detection engine. In addition to a new (and what appears to be faster) method of detection and elimination, there are a few incremental updates like the simple/advanced toggle and a potentially always-on "gaming mode," which attempts to do real-time filtering while you are playing games, watching videos, or just browsing.
Followed by the pop-up in the lower-right corner that annoyed me to the point that I stripped Ad-Aware off of my system despite previously having shelled out for Ad-Aware Pro (one of the previous versions):
Thank you for using Ad-Aware. To further protect your system, please click here to visit Lavasoft and upgrade to Ad-Aware Professional Edition.
I like their product, but I hate being badgered.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
The reason for the mysterious death of many computer users in the last time has been found. It turned out they all had an anti-malware program running which tried to detect and eliminate malware through analyzing its behaviour. Apparently the software detected dangerous behaviour from the computer users and therefore decided to eliminate them in order to protect the system.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
according to several major computer publishers the '09 version of Norton did a lot better than all other antivirus software according to MaximumPC.com http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/protect_your_pc_from_guys_like_this
and PCWorld.com
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/44052/review/internet_security_2009.html
Not that either are like security mags I'm an MPC fanboy, so take this as you will.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
Genetic programming and evolutionary algorithms are both completely distinct from what they're describing here. In those cases, the metaphor is quite appropriate since we're talking about serially encoding an algorithm, and then letting mutations of the encoded algorithm compete subject to a fitness function. Ad-Aware's "Genoytpe" has nothing to do with genetic programming or evolutionary algorithms, and the analogy makes no sense at all.