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.
I'm sorry (Score:3, Interesting)
Malware writers are smart enough to overcome heuristics-based solutions. Just like spammers.
Re:People still use Ad-Aware? (Score:3, Interesting)
Does it really matter though? (Score:3, Interesting)
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 [slashdot.org]