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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.
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Malware writers are smart enough to overcome heuristics-based solutions. Just like spammers.
As a trained biologist, I take exception to the failure to analogize properly. A genotype is the genetic description of an organism. This has nothing to do with a system that learns from experience.
Those who create software: Please, if you are going to use a word from a different field to name or describe your program, try to pick a word that creates some sort of sensible analogy rather than choosing one that sounds cool and is unused. Otherwise, you risk sounding like an idiot.
I used to love it back in the day, removed all kinds of spywave, simple gui, updated easy enough, you ran it when you wanted, etc
These days it keeps half a dozen processes running in the background with more to be opened if you do any kind of scan. I realize having real-time protection is a nice feature, having to go in and auto disable all these is a pain. If you're still getting malware on the go, so to speak, from websites, and aren't using a browser than's got security or at least security add-ons (Firefox + Noscript + ABP + Flashblock) then I could understand the need for it.
Add in an anti virus software that does the same X number of processes in the background plus Ad-Aware thats way more bogged down software than ever. Ad-Aware used to be simple, clean and sleek, now it's just bloated shovelware (how quickly did they move from Version X to SE, to Version X.1?)
Stick with Spybot, Malwarebytes, HijackThis and a decent backup like Nod32, Avast or AVG, imho.
Aw Frell this
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.
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
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
Well I haven't seen much evidence of intelligent design...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
What's new about heuristics?