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hi, avast community,
I’ve heard avast doens’t use advanced heuristic detection engine. Is that true? if this is the truth when avast thinks to change it? every one knows the advanced Heuristic detection Engine - Protects against unknown viruses because the most advanced antivirus machine employs the latest heuristic techniques to identify previously unknown viruses and Trojans. ‘Heuristics’ describes the method of analyzing the code of a file to ascertain whether it contains code typical of a virus. If it is found to do so then the application will disinfect the file or recommend it for quarantine.This is a quantum leap in the battle against malicious scripts and programs as it allows the engine to ‘predict’ the existence of new viruses- even if it isn’t contained in the current virus database. this is the formula to be the most efficient antivirus.I expect this truth will shift sooner.as I read in the avast support forum, perhaps only the avast 5.0 will proceed with that “proactive detection (or, rather, prevention of zero day malware) is (as already announced) one of the hottest topic of the new version. But of course, even the current version of avast ( 4.8 ) engine contains a couple of methods designed to tackle yet-unknown malware.”
best regards.
ps: for the time being what should I use to be protected against unknown viruses ?
Threatfire seems to have matured enough for me to begin recommending it again to friends and associates. I’m running it now without detriment. Several reviews have highly regarded its protection capabilities.
I’m still not wild about that “Community Protection” scheme of the free version so I’ll probably end up buying it soon.
Are the rest all your own words or did you get some of them from a product brochure or webpage?
All reliable effective security software use “advanced” detection techniques. But an “advanced heuristic detection engine” sounds to me a bit like ad-speak. E.g. with great respect to ESET, their use of the term “advanced heuristics” to describe what is in fact virtual behaviour analysis is confusing. This thread may be worth reading.
Heuristics is a method, i.e not the only method, of “analyzing the code of a file to ascertain whether it contains code typical of a virus”. It is an efficient but not necessarily accurate method because it decides quickly that a file is dangerous without being in possession of all the evidence.
So if by “advanced heuristic detection engine” you mean some kind of predictive behaviour analysis (which may or may not incorporate some actual heuristic component as the email scanner in avast! 4.X does now) then I’m pretty sure that you’ll find it in future versions of avast!
In the meantime, Threatfire does have a few idiosyncrasies but is definitely worth trying.
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hi, buddies,
what about the drivesentry, geswall (freeware) and ssm (system safety monitor) because I read good opinions abouth them? they have stated they protect very well against threats and malwares and they supply what a regular antivirus doesn’t make. are they a good combination with avast and superantispyware? best regards.