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.

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I'm sorry

[Jurily]

Malware writers are smart enough to overcome heuristics-based solutions. Just like spammers.

Re:People still use Ad-Aware?

[Anonymous Coward]

With all the background processes now, I keep programs like ad-aware uninstalled. Then when I want to perform a scan I install it, run the scan, and uninstall it again.

Does it really matter though?

[DRAGONWEEZEL]

If you have 1 detection on one software suite, how many do you have on any other suite?

My gues is N +X where N is the number of suites you try and X is any positive integer >1.

That's why the solution really is this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1388939&cid=29619053