AV products will never be any better?

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Hi malware fighters,

According to experts anti-virus software will never improve beyond where it stands now,
and that is why new products are being launched to protect Internet-users against threats
that normal av products are helpless against.

Protection against bot nets are the forefront of the battle.
Botnetprotector NovaShield was able to raise 5 million dollars from investors,
money that will be used to detect backdoor Trojans, keyloggers and rootkits.
“These all mean new threats that offer a new scala of opportunities to us”,
according to the founder of NovaShield. And not only NovaShield has opportunities,
so also has Damballa, FireEye and Sana Security.
All say they will set an end to the present bot-endemic.

Analysts are not happy that the old virus scanner seems to have seen better days.
“It is a bad thing that security products fail and are not able to cure all threats.
The fact that there is a market for anti-bot products, seems like a writing on the wall
for general av-vendors”. These are the wordings of Yankee Group analyst, Andrew Jaquith.
“It reminds me of the anti-spyware market once”. Then new kids on the block arrived that
went at what modern anti-virus products did not tackle.

Botnethunter Jose Nazario sees history repeat itself. “It is spyware around the clock now.
Where new holes appear then new products and firms are soon to follow”.

(Reminding us of the many BHO-KD victims we saw here in the “virus and worms” - edit Polonus)

Dan Green says that virus scanners may have seen their best days, and are slowly going further downhill:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Geer

But it is quite a thing that NovaShield can raise 5 million
for a products that is termed vaguely as “malwarescanner”.
What does it do actually, scanning actively on routers,
and what is so special about the software they use?
Or is it just a hyped up story like ThreatFire’s closing the vulnerability gap a bit further.
Question remains what is NovaShield doing better than what American providers
should actually do?

polonus

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I consider avast! 4.8 better than 4.7 :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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I’d like to see any argument. It’s same song again and again. Like if the “new products” are miracuously using new godsent technologies the established AV/security companies have no access to.

I see only “we also want a bit of the cake” rant.

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Sorry kubecj,

You are right, but don’t blame the messenger. I am just reporting what I read online, and this news was from some Dutch security forum. I fully agree that there is a lot of Snake Oil around sold as the latest panacea for users that do not really understand what it is all about. When a story is too good to be true, than that is what it is…“too good to be true”,

polonus

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This was not directed at you, rather on the ‘experts’. :wink:

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You can’t say it better :wink:

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Hi malware fighters,

Is this one of the products a new generation av software by the name of vipre that could be too good to be true:
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/later-this-week-vipre-goes-to-beta_02.html

Those that want to try it out the beta is here: http://beta.sunbeltsoftware.com/

pol

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Vipre shows some promises yet only time will tell …

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And which promises are you refering to, exactly? :slight_smile:
The stuff on the sunbelt blog, with all respect, was nothing but “marketing bullshit”
(http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/later-this-week-vipre-goes-to-beta_02.html)

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Those that want to try it out the beta is here: http://beta.sunbeltsoftware.com/
no thanks damian :) when you have the best(avast!) why try the rest :)
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Heh, and I thought we better won’t comment on that… ;D

Going back to deepintegrating, notlicensing and nextgenerating of the good ol’ avast code >:D

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Hi Vlk,

I am just posting this info here for our users so they can really enjoy their avast software better. Just to show that it really is for these new generation products to put results according to where their mouth is.
For some users it can be a long way before they can find their av product of choice, and for me that is avast, these consideration help towards that goal that they may find it easier,

polonus