New Ad-Aware Offers Behavioral Detection 68
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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Warning, The page you are about to view contains P0rN and a small malware virus, would you like to continue?
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Re:Slightly Offtopic: Not Genotype (Score:5, Funny)
As a trained physicist I would like to extend that to include not just software developers but also Sci-Fi writers, politicians, the media, the general public and anyone who incorrectly uses the word "exponentially". In fact, people who use the word exponentially incorrectly are exponentially worse.
Re:People still use Ad-Aware? (Score:4, Funny)
Stick with Spybot, Malwarebytes, HijackThis and a decent backup like Nod32, Avast or AVG, imho.
But do any of those have "gaming-mode"? That sounds kind of sexy. When you're out on the web and engaging in especially risky behavior that could earn you an infection, you're in "gaming-mode" - Yeah, right.
"Mom! Don't you know how to knock??? I could have been in gaming mode!"
Re:Phenotype vs. Lamarckian inheritance (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slightly Offtopic: Not Genotype (Score:3, Funny)
And as a trained mathematician, I would like to extend it to all the people who use the word "normal" to describe anything but a non-trivial group G whose only nontrivial subgroup is G itself. Normal people don't make stupid mistakes like that.
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Re:Slightly Offtopic: Not Genotype (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Slightly Offtopic: Not Genotype (Score:4, Funny)
Here all night!